Nature at its devastating best... or worst...

Following is the news coverage of Katrina by NBC.

NBC reporter -- The NBC team here in Biloxi has been bringing you the heartbreaking stories of Hurricane Katrina ever since she made landfall two days ago.
Nobody here expected the utter devastation that was left in Katrina’s wake.
To give you an idea of what conditions are like here I will explain to you our own living conditions. Our hotel has no power, which means no air conditioning in the searing Biloxi heat. There is no running water, which means no showers or working toilets. Cell phone service is extremely limited as is food. We have been sustaining on a steady diet of trailmix, crackers and popcorn.
Of course all of this is beside the point. The people who live here have lost everything. At some point, we will go home. The residents here will not.
Each day it becomes clearer just how bad things are. Today correspondent David Shuster and I went to Wal-Mart where hundreds of people waited on an endless line to get supplies. One woman was left in tears when we asked her what she needed. "Everything" she said.
Many people here haven't been able to contact relatives to let them know they are alive. Whenever I get a cell signal I offer my phone to someone who needs to call a loved one.
The worst part of all of this is that there are still people who are not accounted for, and probably won't be for some time. For now, we continue to bring you one heartbreaking story after another and hope at some point there is some good news to pass on. I will try and continue to update you from the ground as time permits.

Buddhist philosophy

Remembrance is a Buddhist philosopher’s trick. Rather than asking their mind to search for a solution to a potentially impossible challenge, they ask their mind simply to remember it. The presupposition that one once knew the answer created the mindset that the answer must exist . . . thus eliminating the crippling conception of hopelessness. Buddhist followers often use the process to solve quandaries . . . those that most people thought had no solution.