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The stuff that is happening in Texas is pretty awful. There's lots of poor people there who will lose everything. I'm quite impressed by the groups of people who are helping others.

Mind you, what is happening in Bangladesh and South Asia is truly biblical. Even poorer people in a third world country with limited infrastructure and a state that can't help.
We do assume much and take even more for granted in times like these. Lose perspective in that we have more to lose before we're actually..really..in endless despair. Just a month after Katrina we were back to waiting on paper work-insurance, sorting transportation and waiting for the lights to come back on. Jobs to return to. It was rough but it wasn't permanent and you improvised. I see kids scavenge a trash dump in third world countries for a meal and it's sure as shat the last time I ever moaned about eating MREs or warm bottled water.