Things are taking a turn for the worst in New Orleans. Refugees at the Superdome and other places cannot get out and there is no food, water, or supplies. Looting has become epidemic and there are now a report of a sniper preventing a hospital from getting patients out. Police have started emptying ammunition from gunshops to prevent looters from holding people at gunpoint. It is a terrible and chaotic scenario.

If you have family and friends in the area, I hope that you have been able to track them down.

If you can, please donate to the relief effort so that we can minimize the loss of life and property. Let's hope that help from the federal government is on its way as fast as people in Washington are claiming.