Katrina
Oh man, not having a TV has really sheltered me from everything going on in Louisiana at the moment. I really feel for the people who weren't able to leave. For the people who *chose* to stay and are being asshats, yeah, not so much. But working at a hospital makes the situation acutely painful as I try to imagine the state of chaos for distributing help and medicine.
This was on bbcnews.com today:
My friend Joe passed on this website today and now I'm totally hooked. As he stated, "It's a guy at DirectNIC who is riding out Katrina in their office, he's the crisis manager for the company, and it sounds like zombie hordes, basically. They're barricaded in running on their generators, with guns and ammo to defend themselves, and the looters are controlling the streets and the police aren't in control at all; they're deserting their jobs. Fascinating, scary stuff."
As the blogger spoke today about getting his girlfriend out of the chaos that has become the city I almost started crying *sniff*.
My thoughts are with everyone there.
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yes, it's getting pretty nightmarish in there by all accounts - must be a very strange place to be right now, virtually deserted, looting gangs roaming the street doing whatever they wish - very strange.
On a lighter note - pleased to see you use the BBC website! That's where I go for my news too, naturally.
Just been reeading that journal, and watching some of today's footage on BBC news - just scary stuff, apocalyptic, had to imagine what it must be like for those people there right now - most of them, of course, poor, black and with no way to get out, no resources to turn to, entirely dependent on somebody, anybody, to try to restore order and find them a safe place. Makes you wonder what'll ultimately happens to the city - it's going to be abandoned for months, surely - but if that happens, what about those who stay? Must be increasinly like the Dawn of the Dead down there...