For the first 10 days of the call-center's operation in Baton Rouge, my church, St. Luke's Episcopal, fixed dinner for the operators at the call center. The State Police complex in Baton Rouge is across the street from my office and about a mile from St. Luke's. Initially, their cafeteria wasn't equipped to feed the sudden influx of operators - 75 in all - especially at later hours. So we did what we could.

Yes, it was amazing. It all was. It all is. While the packs of Media Hounds have moved to barking at other, more "exciting" stroies (Scooter who??), the aftermath of Katrina and Rita are still with us down here in south Louisiana. And will be for some time to come.

We have come to all this the "New Normal".

.....CLIFF