There but for the grace of God...

As I watch the scenes of devastation along the Gulf Coast I can't help but remember that Charity Hospital in New Orleans was second on Carolyn's match list. Now read these sobering quotes:

• The evacuation of patients from Charity Hospital was halted after the facility came under sniper fire.
  
• "There is no food in Charity Hospital. They're eating fruit bowl punch and that's all they've got to eat. There's minimal water," McSwain (chief of trauma surgery) said.
  
• Charity Hospital has no electricity and no water, and the only food available is a couple of cans of vegetables and graham crackers. Evacuations by boat were halted after armed looters threatened medics and overturned one of their boats.
  
• Rescue workers continued to push bodies aside Wednesday as they used boats and helicopters to search for survivors.
  
• At Charity Hospital, the city's major trauma center, two intensive care patients died Wednesday morning as a result of the lack of electricity and water, doctors said.
  
• Doctors canoed supplies in from three nearby hospitals.
  
• Boats had to take other patients 8 miles (13 kilometers) to a highway intersection, where 80 ambulances waited to ferry them for triage at the LSU Assembly Center in Baton Rouge.

There but for the grace of God go I.

I can't even imagine how worried I would be right now -- me and Kate with the babies far away, and knowing Carolyn was in danger. I can't even begin to imagine.

GIVE. Give until it hurts.