Worth a thousand words

The same picture was on the front page of the New York Times and the SF Chronicle this morning: a flooded New Orleans vista, with boats and a helicopter, and on the side of a wide boulevard, a prominent billboard proclaiming:

WELCOME TO AFRICA

Update: Just to make the connection clear, the BBC just published an article about the situation in Lagos, Nigeria -- surrounded by water with little drinking water available, except for sale.

Also in the Chronicle, a headline: Three Generations, One Roof. It wasn't about hurricane refugees, but about a California family that built a house big enough for all of them. Still, the phenomenon of three generations under one roof is less uncommon this month than last.