Sue,
I understand your frustration. NA and I have talked on it, and he understands too. This job isn't easy by any stretch, believe you me - and he's doing his best to make the best choices, as all our staff does.
Any choice can be second guessed, and action taken in any situation can be peer-reviewed to no end.
Slosh's post was a bit insensitive. I agree with that. That said, if Irene were bad enough for a particular participant to warrant enough empathy, some might think they have bigger concerns than being waited on for FF.
I understand the stress you are under. I live in Nashville and was hit with the major flooding last year that went to the gutters of many houses in our neighborhood, and halfway up almost all of them. Mine was one of the few that was spared being on a good hill. My inlaws, 12 houses down, lived with us for the next six months while we did 100k worth of repairs on their house. Some people couldn't return nor afford to fix.
It was very stressful, I've never seen tensions like that in our family. So, I do feel you. Very much. However we have to try to keep our emotions in check, and yes he was a bit insensitive - but your better approach would have been to just report him and let the mods take it from there.
Do I think your reply should have been edited and just left at that? Eh, I might would have handled it slightly different and explained that to NA via PM. I'd have to review the full thread, etc, to give a public "this is what I would have done" reply though, and I'm hoping this can be settled before coming to that.
NA and I have talked, I gave him my thoughts on how to improve in the future, no infractions were handed out - I vote we consider this a learning experience for all and be done with it.
Hope you're doing ok over there. I have family on the east coast (Rob lives in Baltimore, too) so I was watching Irene all weekend. I hope, but assume, you guys did well.
p.s. As for the "edited by" thing, it was removed for premium users by request of them as a feature FOR them. So people couldn't see them editing their own posts. Sadly when I did it I did it in a way that NO edits show, by them or mods. I see this was a bad choice, and will revert it.