Dear Family of Friends and Acquaintances,
I don't really know how to say to you what I’m about to say, to ask of you what I have to ask of you: help. I need your help.
By now I imagine, nearly all of you (and the world) have heard of and seen the destruction, decimation and devastation that Hurricane Katrina has wreaked upon New Orleans and other areas along and near the Gulf of Mexico coastline. It is, for all its enormity, un-believability and surreal-ness, for me, a situation that overfills me with sorrow, sadness, and escalating anger.
And I almost may not have lived to tell it.