The blogosphere has generated donations of over half a million dollars in the past two days. That speaks volumes, I think.
There's also an effort going on with webcomic artists. Click on the button to read more about this.
Al Mohler has an interesting article today. National Geographic talked about the devestation that a Cat-5 hurricane could bring to New Orleans over a year ago. So someone WAS able to predict this. We all should have been more prepared. My hope is that we can learn something from this, so that we are better prepared in the future.