On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:57:23 -0800, "Ol' Hippie"
> wrote:

>No fault to be laid my friend. This is a very stressful time,
snippage

I rather believe the initial responses by our Governments appeared
miserly as nobody realized the extent of this largest Natural Disaster
in several centuries. I noticed a lot of rapid Course Corrections
after the true extent became known; I don't believe we've seen the
last of them yet.

Harry