Friday, June 20, 2008

Prayers Needed

With all the flooding in the Midwest right now, we are clearly doing a better job taking care of people this time than we did with Hurricane Katrina. I'm not sure why yet - I suspect it's a state issue (high-tax, high-service blue state) but who knows. The StarTribune article today reported one FEMA official saying there was much less need for temporary shelters because of people sheltering others in their homes: "It's evidence of that neighborly Midwestern grit out there." Interesting!

25,000 people left homeless in Cedar Rapids by the flooding...

Somewhere between 2 million & 5 million acres of crops destroyed...

20 levees breached already, with 30 more at risk...

The entire town of Winfield, MS was flooded out...

Prayers needed!

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