> > Do you remember reading about the days after the Civil War when word spread that the government was going to provide each freed slave with 40 acres and a mule so that they could be independent a well as free?
> >
> > It never happened, of course. Probably just a cruel rumor.
> >
> > The modern version goes like this:
> > "The government is going to give each family of survivors a debit card worth $2000." . . . . . . . . . . . . "No, they are not."
> > Howard
>
> Yeah - the photographer kept cancelling, so they cancelled the photo op entirely.

That's probably all it was. When you hear someone saying "What a disaster!" they aren't talking about the storm.
Howard