A thought about Katrina

I was listening to one of the many news reports on the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the levees in New Orleans. I was struck by a statistic given by Sen Mary Landrieu. She said that all of the non-profit agencies, celebrities, and so forth that have worked so hard to rebuild homes for those whose homes were destroyed by the flood waters have managed to build 5000 house. If you do the math that is amazing. That is five years so an average of 1000 homes completed per year. 1000 homes in 52 weeks means just short of 20 homes completed per week. 20 homes per week means nearly 3 homes completed every day! Truly a remarkable rate.

Sadly, although the 5,000 newly completed homes in that five years is a wonderfully speedy pace, it is but a tiny fraction [ .025 ] of the 200,000 homes destroyed! I couldn't bear to continue the math.