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August 28, 2006
August 28, 2005
One year ago.
6:52 am: Katrina
The nightmare has come to pass.
9:25: Mandatory
I worry about my high school friends who are still there, and I worry about my city being gone when I wake up tomorrow. New Orleans is special like no other place. I can't imagine the French Quarter being wiped out, the trees of Audubon park being levelled. My immediate family will be out of harm's way, but you can't rescue a place. You can't pick it up and move it to safety.
11:02 Katrina Links
I worry about the people who can't leave if they wanted to. New Orleans is a town with much poverty, and your average housing project resident can't just book a hotel in Texas and scoot out of town. People without cars, people without money...where do they go? Shelters will definitely fill up.
1:37pm Katrina evacuee status of people you don't even know
I don't know why I feel compelled to blog this stuff, since y'all don't know any of these people, but it helps to talk about this.
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Really, I'm not panicking. Just a little queasy is all.
I'm trying to imagine New Orleans as a third world country. This isn't like a flood anywhere else where the waters will recede naturally. The water there will stay put, stagnant, filled with sewage, snakes, rats and alligators, until pumping stations can be repaired to start pumping it out.
Posted by ray at August 28, 2006 6:06 AM | Permalink
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Comments
"...but you can't rescue a place." Hmmm... I know some folks who are giving it a helluva try.
Posted by: Sophmom at August 30, 2006 10:26 AM
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