Katrina: Please Help

For the first time since I’ve been going there, the Supper Club TV’s last night weren’t tuned to a ballgame, or VH1, or Sportscenter, but rather to coverage of Katrina. The magnitude of the devastation is incomprehensible to me; from the oil rig that was blown 60 miles to an urban city submerged, I can’t begin to come to grips with how bad things are. The Flickr record here might as well be out of some sci-fi movie, like the Day After Tomorrow, that’s how surreal it is seeing highways and bridges and streets and cars underwater.

Unfortunately, however, the experience is anything but surreal and distant for the tens of thousands of people now homeless; those poor souls are left with very little light at the end of the tunnel.

Like Kottke I’m not interested in debating who’s more deserving of the Katrina and tsunami victims (I’ve donated to both), nor am I interested in judging who’s giving or not outside the United States. All I care about is making sure that those who might donate do so, and those who wish to help can.

So if you’re interested, start with the cragslist page here. I can’t possibly say enough about what Craig and co’s service has done here, and I likewise applaud NewsGator’s decision to pledge 3% of their September revenues to the victims.