09.02.05
Ain’t that a shame?
Well this hurricane has really left a mess behind it. It’s been hard getting through this week watching people just sit in the middle of a deserted city and die. It seems like things are finally starting to happen, but what the hell took so long? Why is it that we thing we’re ready for a terrorist attack and that we can handle anything, but then a town is flooded and we’re caught with our pants down?
And people are dropping like flies, and without food and water for so long they’re starting to go crazy. You realize that any time something like this happens you’re going to have the bad apples and the looters come out. But I just saw a video of the police looting a Wal-Mart. I understand the need for survival, but when you’ve got the law and order in the town looting their own stores, how can anything be kept under control? It’s like it’s just become Lord of the Flies down there and they’re all just savages trapped in a city. But they’re American citizens, this is a town that many people know and love. It’s not Somolia or Haiti, looking at the video all this week it looks like we’ve turned it into a third world country……
Why haven’t they been dropping food? Why haven’t they pulled some boats up the Mississippi. How long did we have to survey before we send in the national guard. All I have seen before today is the coast guard rescuing people from rooftops.
It’s given me a sick feeling in my stomach all week and I just wish we could do more. I mean this is has made me think about just how vulnerable we are. I mean you have one of these and maybe a really bad earthquake in California…boom, economy plummits, crime increases, towns reduced to rubble, we destroy ourselves. It’s sad that after all of this ‘readiness’ we only find out that we ain’t ready for shit.
What’s been really killing me about all this is that we knew that New Orleans was a bowl…we knew that it was sinking….we knew that it had a huge population in poverty…we knew that a huge storm was coming.
Everybody talks about how Camille was this huge storm that just passed through but didn’t cause that much damage. Well that thing must have tiptoed through that region because this thing was freaking massive. As much as New Orleans was spared of destruction, it has probably seen the worst out of all of this.