Reading about the disaster in New Orleans has been incredibly depressing. As bad as four different hurricanes were last year, this one seems to easily take the cake. It’s as if New Orleans was simply turned all at once into a lake.
If you want to be depressed even further, take a look at Google Maps’s Satellite View of New Orleans. Of course you’ll see New Orleans in its pre-flood condition, but knowing that pretty much everything you look at from Lake Pontchartrain in the north to the Mississippi River down is pretty much filled with water. This is horrible.