Polak, I know you didn't write it, so this isn't targeted at you.

It did get my fangs bared though.

Keep in mind that people fending for themselves and their neighbors isn't juicy news footage.

Not everyone in Louisiana and Mississippi were screaming for help.

Our best friends entire extended family from New Orleans was in their house (up to 40 people at one point) with no power for a week.

CNN never showed them watching the news of their flooded homes on a little tv running off a car battery.

It never will show them finding homes based on their good credit and savings within a week or so of Katrina.

ABC never showed those of us scouring Baton Rouge daily after work for ice to keep their food and medicine cold.

CBS will never show the people at my wife's church housing Red Cross volunteers in their fellowship hall for weeks on end and the congregation feeding and washing their laundry day and day out.

NBC and Fox's file footage of Katrina will never show the nurses, physicians, respiratory techs, physical therapist, occ therapist, et al leaving after long exhausting shifts in my hospital and heading down to the LSU assembly center to volunteer day in and day out. Nor will it show my former boss basically commadeer a vacated store to set up a emergency makshift hosptial.

This isn't sexy footage for the news. It only makes it on for a little "feel good" segment at the end of the news cast on the local stations before being filed a way and forgotten.

(personally, I think Shaun Penn just got in the way and was using up valuable oxygen).

The people in the rural areas of Louisiana and Mississippi (black and white) won't show up on news footage of Katrina and Rita because they were taking care of themselves and each other.

All of this occurred below N48.