It's funny but I feel the same way towards Katrina. I was on vacation at the time in Hawai'i, and when you're there, there is no news. They put the girl scouts on the front page for having a parade and, oh, yeah, there was a hurricane in Louisiana. I saw some of the post-Katrina problems starting up on airport TVs showing CNN, but I always drown those out so it never really hit me.

I called my mother and she was outraged, she was near to tears and talking about donating money and such and I was completely baffled. What on earth was going on that she thought she had to do that? We had those four hurricanes in Florida and she didn't spazz. Took me a few weeks to get up to speed, and I'm still as-a-human horrified by it all, but it's too removed from me to get more anger built up.