Congress approved something like $10.5 billion in aid so maybe you folks bitching about the government should pick up a newspaper or read an online headline or something every once in a while.

In fact, I happened to be driving from Madison, WI to Normal, IL today and passed a huuuuge military convoy that was like, 3 miles long. Something based in Wisconsin, either Army or National Guard, judging from the drab green paint and license numbers marked in chalk on the back of the vehicles starting with WI. They were headed south with all kindsa supplies. Big huge transport trucks filled up with bottled water that could be unloaded and then used to carry people, tanker trucks marked "potable" (i.e. drinking water), humvees, dump trucks carrying who knows what. They were obviously headed in the direction of New Orleans.