[MicroBob]

First - Very nice gesture. I hear you about 'wanting to do something'.


I know the games in tunica have to be quite juicy right now...but I can't really bring myself to go down there and play because I know there's the possibility that my opponent could be some guy who is ultra-depressed from losing his home and is gambling his week away (as well as his life-savings perhaps) because he has to do SOMETHING to forget.
He's probably going to lose his money anyway I suppose...but I don't want to be the one taking it from him.


Second - I heard some story on the radio this morning that some couple here in Memphis who had evacuated up here got car-jacked or something.
I only caught the very tail-end of the morning-guys talking about it and they were going on about how terrible it was of course.

The hospitality that many Memphians and mid-southerners will show will be terrific of course. But it only takes a couple REALLY bad apples like these car-jacker guys to screw things up for someone who is already in REALLY dire-straits.


Your point is well-taken though.
We are hearing about all the flooding and injuries and fatalities down there.
30k people at the New Orleans superdome are now being evacuated to the Houston Astrodome for crying-out loud.


But the ones with cars and with a little bit of money who were able to get out of there in time and escape to the Memphis area aren't exactly in great shape either.

They know their home is probably gone. They know they have nowhere to go back to. Possibly no job if their place of employment was destroyed too (or they owned a small-business).
Some won't be able to pay $50/night for a hotel-room forever but they have nowhere else to go and it really is quite a sad situation.

There are a lot of people down there AND up here in the Memphis area who have no freaking idea what they are going to do...but they are pretty sure that their money to support themselves isn't going to last forever.