..an admonition against anyone coming down to help unless with an organization. The results of this are unpredicatable and I suspect they'd prefer not to add to any problems with more folks with which to contend. Also, an admonition to watch out for scams as they will proliferate as scum buckets try to capitalize on the misery of others.

This tragedy points up in severe detail the short distance between life and death. In less than a minute thousands of lives are lost or changed, many forever. Haiti also points up an imbalance between population numbers and resources in a bit of a microcosm of the world in the direction we are headed.