As much as I am concerned about my own beloved hometown of New Orleans, I am glad to see that the folks in Waveland and the whole Mississippi coast are not being forgotten.

Those coastal communities were much more badly damaged by Katrina's initial impact than was the city of New Orleans, which was flooded only a day or two later when the levees collapsed. If our levees had held, we would have been OK and the world's attention would have been focused on the Mississippi coast, which was totally devastated. However, the way things eventually played out, New Olreans has gotten most of the attention (but still not enough help to actually recover), and places like Waveland are in danger of being forgotten and neglected. So, it's great to see that Dalton GA has adopted one of the worst-hit areas.