inferno schmerno

Sometimes it would be comforting - somehow - to believe that it actually happened the way Dante said ... because I would lobby for the deepest, darkest, worst, most bitter and painful circle for people who do this kind of thing:

Katrina Cons
Home repair fraud climbing along Gulf Coast

And the thing is? The two or three cases they name in this article are FAR from rare. Three trips now to the gulf coast, and story after story after story of a community already beaten and battered by the vagaries of nature ... REvictimized by the avarice and sheer unadulterated malice of business owners right there in their own towns. Their NEIGHBORS are doing this. It's unconcscionable.

But since I'm not really so vicious and violent as to wish such unspeakable harm, even on someone who does such despicable things ... or those who do nothing ABOUT those things once they're done ... I take my comfort - and it is great comfort indeed - in knowing that OUR community, and so many like us, have committed to healing these wounds ... not only the pain of the storm, but to bring hope and help into a community that needs THAT renewed as much as their buildings rebuilt.