Hurricane Thoughts
Wow. I've been watching the TV coverage of Katrina, and that's about all I can say. Wow. Its hauntingly similar to watching the tsunami coverage about a year ago. It's just impossible for me to comprehend the damage. The photographs and videos show wide expanses of debris, as far as the eye can see. I try to imagine the entire city of Davis in a similar state, but I can't even visualize that...the sheer mass of damage and destruction is just too much to wrap my mind around.
I remember the trip by the DHS Jazz Band to New Orleans a few years ago. All the cool places we visited, all the fun people we met. All those places are gone for good, it looks like. I hope the people are safe.
But getting to safety is only the most immediate concern. What about the aftermath? What do you do when every aspect of your life except your physical being is gone? No home, no job. Photo albums and vital documents gone. Its hard enough imagining that happening to you and your family, but to a whole city? Again, it's too much for me to wrap my mind around.
My heart goes out to everyone down there. I wish there was something more I could do.
I remember the trip by the DHS Jazz Band to New Orleans a few years ago. All the cool places we visited, all the fun people we met. All those places are gone for good, it looks like. I hope the people are safe.
But getting to safety is only the most immediate concern. What about the aftermath? What do you do when every aspect of your life except your physical being is gone? No home, no job. Photo albums and vital documents gone. Its hard enough imagining that happening to you and your family, but to a whole city? Again, it's too much for me to wrap my mind around.
My heart goes out to everyone down there. I wish there was something more I could do.