New Orleans

Today, my attention keeps going back to New Orleans. The photos and stories from New Orleans are incredible. We have had severe floods in Manitoba, but the scale of the disaster is larger than even our huge Winnipeg flood in 1950. Many years ago, I almost went to New Orleans for a medical internship. Since then I have been there twice, and have walked through many of the neighbourhoods which are now underwater. Words somehow seem very inadequate to convey the sadness I feel for what people are going through there, and the hope that the people and the city can recover.