This post is part of the Instapundit Blogburst.

I'm giving to the Salvation Army, Mennonite Disaster Services and the Humane Society. That's money for today, money to rebuild, and money for the lost pets.

We're also to suggest ideas, so here are a couple.

If you can, open your house to a homeless family. I don't know if anyone will make it up to Massachusetts, but I can put up a family of three or four. And get your town to find room in their schools for the children whose education is being disrupted.

Longer term we need training programs for the people who lost their livelihood. There is going to be lots of rebuilding, so training in construction skills would seem to make sense. When people are able to go back to these devastated areas, that where the jobs will be.

Good luck to all, and once again my thoughts are with you.