I bet they aren't even cute anymore after two years.

Actually yeah. They're still pretty cute after two years.

Rhinos should be Lori's theme animal: super-near sighted, extra sensitive skin.

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this (she chuckles slightly)--this is working very well for them."

I expected better from Barbara, but George Jr. had to learn it somewhere, I guess.

Utah has a few hundred refugees, who were not told where they were going when they got on the plane. They didn't know where they were when they got off the plane and saw mountains. Officials didn't want to have people saying, "No, we don't want to go two thousand miles away to where we don't know anyone and where people can't find us!"

I wonder how many families are being permanently destroyed by the "Get on the bus and shut up, you'll find out where you're going later" policy. How are people going to find each other? I doubt people too poor to have a way out of a critcally ill city have cell phones with free long distance.

Baby Rhino!

billytea, did you see that the New Orleans zoo only lost three animals?

I did see. It sounds like their disaster planning was pretty effective. I feel kind of funny about it. I mean, I'm glad the zoo got through it so well, but it does serve to highlight how poor the human-directed preparations were, and how empty the 'we didn't expect it' excuse is.

Billytea, I don't think it's much of a spoiler to say that wasn't recognition.

Hurricanes have spoilers?

who were not told where they were going when they got on the plane.

I know it is a dire situation, but this boggles once again. I've been amazed again and again about how people were required to stay, to go, to not come. It's like they're numbers that can be played with.

I see all that is being done for those who got out ahead of time. Students who can attend any school. Car payment extensions. These are good things and I don't say that they shouldn't happen. They should. But it's just one more example of how if you have even a medium amount of money, or family with it, you have options. If you don't, you're just screwed with over and over.

Oh, Tom! An orphan baby rhino! So cute!

There's your rhino, Kat! Hand-raised and all.

Billytea, I don't think it's much of a spoiler to say

I think it's safe to say that any conversation that starts with "I reckon Jack Bauer's probably lost more than one lover because he insists on changing the safe word on a nightly basis" is not going to generate any commentary on events on the show worth taking seriously, be they past or future.