We're going to make it.

Our home was right here. The surge picked it up, and it was wedged between those two live oaks there, and the wind and water just beat it to pieces.

It's different down here, but it's still my home. The worst was right when it happened. The lowest point was when you realized you didn't have a home.

Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.

Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.

You got it back in hugs, you got it back in tears, you got it back in words of thanks that only a person who is desperate can express.