The flood gates have opened......

I can't stop crying.

My heart is breaking. To see the desperation and suffering. To see the lack of response. To see people dying in the streets, children with no parents, people with no homes, no anything.

I guess we were lucky to be without power, because no words read, or spoken on the radio, can translate accurately what has happened.

I hope help gets there before it's too late. But I know that when help does finally arrive, there will be more chaos and violence. Simply because the people will be like starving animals. Some will be trampled. Some will be injured in fights over the first wave of food and water. Because the confidence that there will be more coming won't be there.

We don't have a lot, to give. Especially with all that has happened here this past week. However, I did give some to the American Red Cross. And my city is doing a food drive for non-perishables to send up there. I am cleaning out my pantry and sending all I have. I want to feel like I am doing something to help.

W.