The Hurricane

1. My son's soccer coach works for a large trucking line. He told me just tonight that his company had been asked to send its refrigerated trucks to New Orleans to help store all the dead bodies until the authorities there identify the dead and figure out what to do. He said that the company had to refuse, because the trucks are used to carry refrigerated food. While the company was glad to help carry ice and other goods to help the survivors, it couldn't put dead bodies in trucks that are used for food.

2. Not to be a curmudgeon, but I have to ask: Isn't it about time that our public officials started talking about how deeply unwise it would be to rebuild a city that is 1) below sea level, 2) built on swampland, and 3) sandwiched between the sea and a really big lake? One might as well build a city on the summit of Mt. St. Helens.