My thoughts are with those affected by Hurricane Katrina and especially with the people of New Orleans. I can't imagine what they must be going through at this horrible time. Sad sad days.
The tv coverage us 24 hrs a day right now. It's hard to watch and still hard to image a city of a million people destroyed. They need to evacuate everyone because it isn't healthy now. It may be months before it's clean again. I can't imagine waiting months to go home. What will they do while waiting? So many people have died. We can help but feel frustrated ourselves with nothing to do. Giving money helps the relief fund but does nothing to help us emotionally. It will take time. It is the same with other world disasters. The feeling of helpless ness if you aren't in a position to offer physical help. Dooley
I feel a deep sadness for the residents of the gulf coast area :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: . I live in Michigan, the worst thing to ever happen here in my life time was the 1953 Beecher tornado. Yes it snows here and gets cold but it is easy to deal with. Matter of fact I love it, the winter that is. I get so tired of hearing people grip about it I some times point south and tell them warm weather is that way. :cry: Al
There is a saying about things getting worse before they get better. I wonder if the people in New Orleans think things are worse or better since they have been evacuated. So many have been displaced among the confusion of the flooding, fires and looting. Thsy are saying it will get much worse yet. How can things get worse when they've lost everything . The city is a major disaster area and now the disease bacteria count is growing each day making it even worse. I guess every area has it's potential for disaster, but I'll take our wildfires, I think. Dooley
I hope those that are trying to stay put will leave because the water must be toxic by now, and it's only going to get worse. Still can't believe what happened. Just because it is not on the news 24 hours a day does not mean that the horror is over. Here is a blog that was updated throughout the aftermath of the hurricane http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/
Oh I can see things worse than they are now or were the day after. Those people are being transported willy nilly all over the country. Most had nothing to start with and lived on what the goverment doled out to them. (1. most will never be able to aford to go back home where friends and family were/are. (2. If they did happen to own their home they will have to deal in all the red tape and liying insurance comapnys. (3. if they did happen to have the means to rebuild they will have to deal with all the costly red tape the Goverment (s) wrap them in. Yes they will have it much worse some time in the future, of that I am sure. Al
One good thing to come out of this is that quite a few of the people are looking at this in a positive way. One young man said that he is looking to settle in Salt Lake City, where they evacuated him to. He said that he could never seem to get any money ahead to move out of the projects in N.O. and was on the dole lost of his life. Now he has an apartment free for a year and has a job. For once he has the opportunity to get ahead. He said the people are treating him like a person, instead of like something less. Him and his family have an opportunity to something that he would never been able to do in N.O.
I was watching the news on the weekend when they were doing interviews with the people evaucated to Phoenix. There were a number of people offering free apartments for 6 months to a year. There was a job fair where over 50 people already got jobs. Some said they were never going back because there was nothing left for them. But, a few said that they were born in New Orleans and that was home. Do you think the government will move them back when it's time or will they have to get back on their own? Dooley
