Rafael - Living live a day at a time

I have been listening to the news on the TV and just found out that now the US government is going to issue a debit card loaded with $2,000 to those affected by the hurricane. Now my question is: will this really help the homeless still in New Orleans and other affected areas? Or are they trying to buy their way out of this mess?
BBC got together a special 30 minutes documentary on hurricane Katrina, where in a part of it a couple of Brits in their 50s where interview on their experience of staying in New Orleans in the stadium through the storm.

They said that resources (water, food, bathrooms, etc.) where really limited for the amount of people that were present, that it was complete chaos. A group of foreigners had to get together to protect each other, and that at the moment that the generators where turned of as they had run out of gas, they saw and listened as at least 1 person was raped and another one was killed close to them.

How do you put a price to all of these damages? How do you reflect all of these into popularity index? How do go on with your life after this?

I can only say that I am truly thankful, because this same hurricane hit Florida before going to Louisiana and Mississippi, and it actually made landfall not far away from where I live. I am thankful because my wife and daughter where with me at that moment and I don’t want to imagine having to go through something alike with my family.