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so i feel terrible about complaining about the hurricane last week because now it's in the gulf, and is obviously causing huge huge amounts of destruction over there. i talked to my mom today and she said that 80% of new orleans is underwater, and she told me a story she saw on the news about a man and wife who were on their roof, and the man was trying to hold onto his wife, but the water was too strong and he wasn't able to hold on and so she was ripped away from him and drowned. that is one of the saddest things i have ever heard. and i also just feel bad for going around complaining about really trivial average stuff when people's entire lives are being devestated horribly. i know there's nothing i can do to change anyone's situation, but my heart is really just breaking for people... i think about what it must be like to be in their shoes and it makes me want to cry. i wish there was something i could do to help them, or some way i could reach out, but i dont know what to do and i feel really bad. i guess i can make some kind of donation, but i dont even know what that could do and it seems so impersonal... i guess it's the best a person could do. i also really feel like i should be praying for people too but half the time i dont even feel like that does anything except soothe my own feelings. i feel just really out of control, because i hate seeing people hurting, and when i do, i want to be able to help relieve their pain but in this kind of situation i can't do anything... it feels hopeless, and i guess it's even worse for them than for me, and i don't know what to do or how to feel. oy