Katrina in the French News

[sierra_le_oli]

Well, that was interesting. On Thursday, the top story on the 8 o'clock news on France 2 was, naturally, the aftermath of Katrina. The focus was on New Orleans, partly because of France's historical connection to that city. Their American correspondent on the scene reported this was a terrible disaster but the human spirit will overcome, blah, blah

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[knell]

I'm not at all surprised to hear that the Dutch have been offering assistance - it did seem like rather a no-brainer to me that if you want to do water management and fix dikes (insert putting-finger-in-dike cliché here) the people to call are the Dutch. I also thought that the Americans might well be a bit too proud to ask..

[sierra_le_oli]

The Americans were refusing foreign aid at first (stupid ideas about going it alone), but happily seem to be accepting it now.

The only thing the Dutch don't have experience with is hurricanes, for which we may be thankful. *g* (Seriously though, I'm really glad we can do something useful in this terrible situation.)