Bailed on Gustav

I can hardly find anything about the effects/victims/devastation of Gustav on the news! The RNC and Palin have stolen the media from the huge mess that Gustav left! Just because hundreds of people aren't being pulled from their roofs via helicopter, and just because there isn't embarrassing footage of people crying out from the flooded Super dome, doesn't mean that there aren't major needs across Louisiana!

The shelters in North Louisiana are empty of supplies and are aching for volunteers. Today they were still busing people to Shreveport shelters from two parishes that had levees break. There was so much damage in Baton Rouge to power sources that supply New Orleans that it's effecting New Orleans infrastructure, too. They can't start busing people back until power is restored.... I could go on and on.

If any of us were to stay inside one of the shelters for more than an hour or two, we'd immediately be struck with the urgency of all the needs. Think of the elderly with their medical needs and dementia... the children with only a couple of feet of space to play and little to keep them occupied... the special needs children and adults needing calm and quiet places to function well... hundreds of people with one TV for access to the outside world... what about people who are sick or pregnant and need more than a cot...!

With Katrina the nation knew about the needs because the media shared the story for days, weeks and months (and rightly so). But when Gustav was down-graded and then seemed to be less devastating than expected, the media bailed and turned to the Grand Old Party. Or maybe they would have turned to anything else if the timing were different...

Well, I wanted to do my part to let you know there are still big needs and so many people still in major crisis mode.... so keep the prayers coming... and if you want to donate, you can click the link to the right and know that it's going directly to people who need it.