Is there a country that needed an earthquake LESS than Haiti?  The people were so poor they were actually eating dirt!  Watching the news, you realize how close to disaster these people were living before the quake hit.  Perhaps the best we can do is to draw any lessons from their experience.  One thing that stands out is how long they had to wait until help could arrive.  We saw this after Hurricane Katrina.  We saw this after Hurricanes Charlie, Francis and Jeane came through our neighborhoods.  Help is not sitting down the road, waiting.  In the immediate aftermath, you are on your own.

As if we do not have enough things to worry about: Rising gas prices, Underwear Bombers, crop freezing temperatures, and Simon is leaving Idol to start a DIFFERENT talent show.  Ugh!  Now the very earth is trying to swallow us UP!