Katrina Part 3: Is This Armageddon? or Quick — What’s The Name of That Blonde Girl Who Disappeared In Aruba?
Writing by treason on Wednesday, 31 of August , 2005 at 7:25 pm
In New Orleans we have reports of looting; in Baghdad, over 900 people have died as a result of a stampede. And here, gas prices have shot up again.
I had to go out today and drive to the other side of town. The afternoon local talk radio host asked people to picture a city about the size of ours under water. I took a moment while I sat at the light and visualized that.
I have to give credit to T for the Aruba comment. It actually took me a moment to remember her name when he asked. That poor girl’s mother. She worked so hard to keep her daughter’s name in the news. And then there was that other blonde…the one camped out in Crawford. Suzy? Sandy?
We mocked the people who sat on Bourbon Street and drank daiquiris, but it appears the French Quarter - which sits a little higher than the rest of the city - was virtually spared. Says T: “No wonder it’s called the French Quarter. All those people with their hands over their hands, waiting for the American military to rescue them…”
I get the joke, but the big picture’s not so funny. Everyone’s sitting and waiting for the government to tell them what to do and come rescue them. There are rats and sharks and alligators in that water, they say. And what about the creeping socialism? I suspect sharks are less dangerous.
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