The Times-Picayune reports that Louisiana's shelter capacity for hurricane season is more than 140,000 beds short if we have another mandatory evacuation. Apparently, in Louisiana alone, more than 49,000 families are still living in FEMA trailers.
This is from The New York Times: "When President Bush spoke to the nation soon after Hurricane Katrina, he was resolute that the city would be rebuilt. “We will do what it takes,” he said. We — the federal, state and city governments; elected officials and the citizens who hire them — have failed spectacularly. Homes and schools remain empty or imaginary; evacuees and survivors wait in cramped trailers, unable to return or rebuild. A huge silence still hangs over the Lower Ninth Ward, a place every American should see, to witness firsthand how truckloads of promises have filled New Orleans’s vast devastation with nothing."
But enough of the liberal media! Our friends Sarah Rogers and Bob Hillman have had a delicious baby boy. Not only that: they have named him after one of the philosophers mentioned in the philosophy-themed bridal shower scene in Trendy But Casual.
And Elizabeth McCracken and Edward Carey - top novelists and all-around good people - have had a baby boy as well. His name is Gus.
We can't wait to meet these babies. T. Middy is very good with small children (and animals).
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