Jon,

As I learned in Gulfport last week, if it weren’t for the levies breaking in New Orleans, the city would not have been part of the story. The northeast quadrant, the most dangerous, never passed through the city. It did pass through Gulfport and Biloxi.

Of course, the media had the story they wanted and stuck with it and only touched on the need in other parts of the region. What’s even more pathetic, is that this belief that the need is only in New Orleans is stuck in the mind of people. It was stuck in my mind until I went to Mississippi and saw the images that I saw. The entire region has need, not just one city, and that need is still there today.