JUst about any song that mentions storms or New Orleans - there must be hundreds! - has had a sobering effect on me lately, including "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?", "Who'll Stop the Rain", "Born on the Bayou" and "Bad Moon Rising" by John Fogerty (CCR); "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall" by Bob Dylan; "Riverboat Fantasy" by David Wilcox; "House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals ... and on and on ...

For a while there, every time I thought "Katrina" I heard Katrina Katrina - where you been so long (to the tune Corrina Corrina). And now, thanks to Donuel's creativity posted on the Rita thread, every time I look at the news I hear "Ugly Rita, hurricane ..." (to the tune of the Beatles "Lovely Rita, meter maid")

.... aarrrgghh ....