Small businesses are uniquely vulnerable to disaster.

This is a catastrophic disaster, and that supersedes everything. It's unfortunate, but a family on the waiting list has to put themselves in the shoes of a family at the armory -- and that's probably the only shoes they have right now.

If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Hurricane Katrina has been a terrible natural disaster. Many of our employees and customers in the region have lost their homes and many of their possessions. Very few have escaped from the storm unscathed. We are determined to do everything that we can do as a company to help the region rebuild and help our employees return to their normal lives as quickly as possible.

You don't want to campaign in areas that have been hit by a natural disaster. There's no place in Florida that has been unaffected.

It is difficult to understand the lack of preparedness and the ineffective initial response to a disaster that had been predicted for years and for which specific, dire warning had been given for days.