A View from the Superdome

[mojosmom]

I've been meaning to post this here for a while, so I'll be able to get to it. It was posted on one of my legal listservs. The woman who wrote it is a lawyer with the Louisiana Department of Social Services and was assigned to work at the Superdome.

It's really long, but worth reading.

Comments

How nightmarish...

[gorydetails]

It's still hard to believe that things could go so wrong so quickly - although whenever I try to figure out just how one *could* arrange a workable evacuation or disaster plan for a densely-populated area I shudder and give up. That's a very powerful picture of life in the Dome - and a scary one; I may have some "don't leave me here" dreams of my own...

[skyring]

Some stories are so gripping that they don't need writers tricks of pacing and climaxes. They just have to be told in plain words.

I found myself reading on and on as the conditions deteriorated. I could all but feel the muck under my feet and the stink in my nostrils.

Thanks for posting that up.