"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it..."

The news footage from the Gulf Coast has been something, hasn't it? The devastation is eerily reminiscent of the tsunami that devastated South Asia last winter. The one thing I did NOT see following the Asian disaster was all the gleeful looting. How sad!

In a way, that might be somewhat expected. During hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters, those who have the least to lose are often those who lose the most. Their dwellings are not as sturdy or safe as others - a huff and a puff and the house blows down. Poor folks do not live on the mountainside, they are down in the valley where the floods come. Then, once the floods finally recede, the destroyed dwellings remain destroyed because the poor cannot afford insu…