Hurricane Katrina...
as I often do, I'd gone a few days without reading the news or anything much other than passing headlines...I knew New Orleans was hit by a hurricane and that it was in bad shape. I thought, hey, I've lived through hurricanes and they suck and stuff, people love disaster blah blah blah, but oh wow. shit.
I sat down with the NYTimes today and was so so appalled. This sort of damage is on an absolutely incomprehensible scale. So many homes gone, folks dying, people stranded. I want to do something, but I don't know exactly what. I was only 5 when Hugo hit, but I know that we would have been lost without so many people's generosity. What can you do to help when you're this far away?
PS-There's all this talk about "why didn't people heed the warnings" and leave town. But let me tell you, after so many false alarms, folks get ornery. They want to stay put. I know this, because I've seen it. Yes, it may have been a stupid move, but at this point who cares? They're stuck. Get them out.
Enough from me. I feel sick. (And kind of guilty that I was so much out of the loop for a few days)
I sat down with the NYTimes today and was so so appalled. This sort of damage is on an absolutely incomprehensible scale. So many homes gone, folks dying, people stranded. I want to do something, but I don't know exactly what. I was only 5 when Hugo hit, but I know that we would have been lost without so many people's generosity. What can you do to help when you're this far away?
PS-There's all this talk about "why didn't people heed the warnings" and leave town. But let me tell you, after so many false alarms, folks get ornery. They want to stay put. I know this, because I've seen it. Yes, it may have been a stupid move, but at this point who cares? They're stuck. Get them out.
Enough from me. I feel sick. (And kind of guilty that I was so much out of the loop for a few days)