Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Hurricane Katrina
I'm sure that I'm not the only person that is or has written about Hurricane Katrina, but I thought that I would express how I feel about it.
It's a tragedy. Lots of lives lost and lots of people's lives changed forever. Similar to how a lot of people came together to donate money and other items for the tsunami tragedy in Asia, we should come together again today to help our Gulf States neighbors, from Lousiana to Florida.
It is unbeliveable how in this day and age in America, that so many people have died from this. Everyone was given warnings and given a mandatory order to leave New Orleans. Some decided to ride it out. Now the levees are bursting and downtown New Orleans (which was dry yesterday) is inundated with several feet (up to 20 now) of water. Hopefully now, people will learn that when a hurricane of this magnitude comes, just leave. It's not worth it to stick around. The situation in Mississippi, where numerous (around 30) people died while riding out the hurricane bears similar resemblance to the "Hurricane Party" during Camille. Myth or not, the building was totally wiped out.
As for non-food merchandise looters (e.g. clothes, TVs, etc.) they should be arrested. I'm sure that the biggest concern the police and national guard has is to rescue people that are currently stranded, as it should. There was a video of park rangers trying to stop looters, even searched them, but they took off. Park rangers don't have the ability to arrest people I guess. Looting of food and water has been overlooked because most of the people consider it a necessity.
In Houston, the local alternative radio station, 94.5 The Buzz is running a request-a-thon tomorrow (08/31) from 6:00 AM to whenever. They did something similar for the tsunami in Asia and raised a lot for that. Here's the link (http://thebuzz.com/pages/requestathon.html). BTW the host of the morning show is from New Orleans so it has a place in his heart.
It's a tragedy. Lots of lives lost and lots of people's lives changed forever. Similar to how a lot of people came together to donate money and other items for the tsunami tragedy in Asia, we should come together again today to help our Gulf States neighbors, from Lousiana to Florida.
It is unbeliveable how in this day and age in America, that so many people have died from this. Everyone was given warnings and given a mandatory order to leave New Orleans. Some decided to ride it out. Now the levees are bursting and downtown New Orleans (which was dry yesterday) is inundated with several feet (up to 20 now) of water. Hopefully now, people will learn that when a hurricane of this magnitude comes, just leave. It's not worth it to stick around. The situation in Mississippi, where numerous (around 30) people died while riding out the hurricane bears similar resemblance to the "Hurricane Party" during Camille. Myth or not, the building was totally wiped out.
As for non-food merchandise looters (e.g. clothes, TVs, etc.) they should be arrested. I'm sure that the biggest concern the police and national guard has is to rescue people that are currently stranded, as it should. There was a video of park rangers trying to stop looters, even searched them, but they took off. Park rangers don't have the ability to arrest people I guess. Looting of food and water has been overlooked because most of the people consider it a necessity.
In Houston, the local alternative radio station, 94.5 The Buzz is running a request-a-thon tomorrow (08/31) from 6:00 AM to whenever. They did something similar for the tsunami in Asia and raised a lot for that. Here's the link (http://thebuzz.com/pages/requestathon.html). BTW the host of the morning show is from New Orleans so it has a place in his heart.
# posted by CU @ 8:14 PM 
