Between Trump talk and Milwaukee protests, we are ignoring human devastation in Louisiana
The messages started filtering in over the weekend, one Facebook-friend-of-a-Facebook-friend at a time.
The voices come from south Louisiana. Where is everybody, they're asking. We're in trouble here.
The scope of the disaster that has hit our Pelican State neighbors is starting to sink in: 10,000 people in shelters; 20,000 rescued over three days; whole towns under water; hundreds of roads closed.