Storm Damage

Each day the paper reports the misery that many of the residents in Louisville are suffering because of the rain storm that we had a few weeks ago. At first, it was on all of the national news programs and was a main subject on the front page of the paper but now it seems to have been relegated to the back pages.

FEMA has been here and has promised help to many, many people and they gradually are offering more and more. Our Main Library, for example had millions of dollars worth of damage. University of Louisville had millions of dollars worth of damages, Sts/ Mary and Elizabeth Hospital was out of commission for a few weeks. They have now been able to open their ER again and bring some of the patients back that had to be evacuated to other facilities. It has truely been a disaster.

The huge problem of discarded posessions that used to be in the hundreds of homes that were flooded, has become a problem. The city has tried to pick up and dispose of some of it but they have been innundated this year with picking up tree limbs, and other flotsom and jetsome from the two or three other natural disaster.

Volunteers, and people that own pick up trucks have generously offered their help but it is still a monumental problem. Many of the private homes that were affected are in the neighborhoods that are less affluent than others and it is impossible for them to pay to have their ruined belongings hauled away. Consequently, the piles have become health hazards. Vermin and bacteria are running rampant through the piles of waste. It is certainly a delimma.

I can't immagine how it is all going to end. I only hope FEMA has enough money to ease the pain of as many people as it can. There but for the gtace of God...