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I cannot even put into words the sadness that I feel for the people in New Orleans and Mississippi. I have watched every video on MSN, which I need to quit doing, and this last one just really got me. Instead of just feeling like crying, I actually did. There was one lady (if you watch it, it is the white lady with the baby) who was holding her baby and crying and saying that it is getting harder and harder for her to wake her baby up. There are old people collapsing in the streets and dying. These people have had no food, water, they are in over 100 degrees of weather right now. The baby's have no food, and the kids are upset because they see the parents upset and they don't know what is going on. Every thing in my body is telling me to drive over there with as much shit as I can fit in my car right now. I can't though. For one, no one can take off right now. The hospitals are filling up with people they are bringing over, and we have 3 people off our account alone who had to evacuate. We were already getting behind before all this happened. So, now we have less people, and we are going to have a lot more work come in.
I am washing loads of clothes that I am getting together. I am going to Walmart tonight to pick up toiletries, etc. I am going to get whatever I can together to take to some shelters. Toys for the kids, etc. I am going to call the volunteer place someone posted about on myspace to get the details of when you can go help at the astrodome, which I am going to try to do Saturday.
Last night when I was watching an interview with Bush, me makes the comment about not turing this into a political thing when she asked him why there was not aid dispatched before the storm hit since we knew what type of storm it was. Basically, why did we wait to see what happened before we started the ships up and stuff. This is a legit question, and he says lets not turn it into a political thing, we have time for politics later. Dumb ass. There is no reason that there should be babies and old people down there without food and water, no reason. And for the people looting and acting stupid, they should be shot. It is one thing to break into a place for food and water, and the cops even said as much, but TV's? Come on. They said, we are just trying to survive. Not with boxes of shoes and big screens your not.
Eli told me there are emails going around about how the people deserved it because they didn't leave or because it is natures way of killing off the bad black people. I am sure glad I did not get any of those emails. Sometimes things like this can bring the best out in people and also the worst. There are always going to be troublemakers, and then when you add extreme desperation into it, you are only asking for trouble.
For the first time in a really long time, I have been genuinely praying. I just hope that these people make it out okay. I don't want to see any more kids being carried around dead. After seeing what happened in Iraq and now this...
I am washing loads of clothes that I am getting together. I am going to Walmart tonight to pick up toiletries, etc. I am going to get whatever I can together to take to some shelters. Toys for the kids, etc. I am going to call the volunteer place someone posted about on myspace to get the details of when you can go help at the astrodome, which I am going to try to do Saturday.
Last night when I was watching an interview with Bush, me makes the comment about not turing this into a political thing when she asked him why there was not aid dispatched before the storm hit since we knew what type of storm it was. Basically, why did we wait to see what happened before we started the ships up and stuff. This is a legit question, and he says lets not turn it into a political thing, we have time for politics later. Dumb ass. There is no reason that there should be babies and old people down there without food and water, no reason. And for the people looting and acting stupid, they should be shot. It is one thing to break into a place for food and water, and the cops even said as much, but TV's? Come on. They said, we are just trying to survive. Not with boxes of shoes and big screens your not.
Eli told me there are emails going around about how the people deserved it because they didn't leave or because it is natures way of killing off the bad black people. I am sure glad I did not get any of those emails. Sometimes things like this can bring the best out in people and also the worst. There are always going to be troublemakers, and then when you add extreme desperation into it, you are only asking for trouble.
For the first time in a really long time, I have been genuinely praying. I just hope that these people make it out okay. I don't want to see any more kids being carried around dead. After seeing what happened in Iraq and now this...