It is a terrible thing, and the more I watch, the worse it gets. Here in Florida, we had troops and cops on every corner the day after the storms (all four of them). But for some reason, the help has taken more than 5 days to reach the people trapped in New Orleans. If this was truly an 'act of God', then it was a test, not a punishment. A test of will, and compassion.
I do not so much mourn the loss of the ones who died, for they are in a better place, but to see the survivors is truly heart renching. To see others suffer. To see others pushed to the point of desperate measures, then abandoned and left to struggle for acting out in fear and desperation. The way the government has handled this disaster is really upsetting to me. We got water to Sri Lanka faster than we got water to New Orleans. This has nothing to do with God, it has to do with people. People who make decisions, and the consequences of those actions.
We must all learn what we can from this terrible ordeal, and at the same time we must realize that in the grand scheme of things, 'this ain't nothing but a thing, chicken wing.' And this too shall pass.