The Price of Failure

The Martian Anthropologist is carrying a story that brings the human cost of inaction in the wake of Katrina's visit to New Orleans. A mother trapped in a nursing home dies, while her son, promising relief will come soon, is helpless to do anything to prevent her death. It's a heart-wrenching story that is an example of the kind of despair that has descend in New Orleans. There will be more unless things speed up.