Left Behind

The human cost is high enough, but when I saw a devoted companion of nine years being left behind on a shelterless interstate, I could bear it no longer.

The dog was a poodle mix, I think. Its people got on a bus to be evacuated, but it was not allowed on the bus.

That image, more than any other, will stay with me for a long time.

Dead babies, dead old people, dead dead dead... what will the final toll eventually be? Why was no one prepared? Why did the governmental infrastructure (not highways--the actual chain of command, I mean) fail? Because of no communications abilities? I guess they thought it would never happen to them, while they were the ones on watch.

Whatever aid is raised will only be a drop in the bucket.

Who is going to stand up and take charge?