Katrina revisited
Writing by treason on Monday, 28 of August , 2006 at 3:05 pm
“That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.”
– Mayor Ray Nagin
Yes, let’s. So I’m actually gonna cut Ray some slack here. I can’t say I was in either New York or Nawlins, but I was in the Bay Area during the Loma Prieta quake. Everybody remembers the damage to the bridge and the structures in the City, but how many remember the damage to the South Bay?
My friend Jack was living in Los Gatos at the time and I was amazed to see how many homes - including Victorians - had shifted off their foundations and were slumped over as if something had come by and whacked them just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The bedroom walls in my mother’s home in the Bay Area cracked and separated under the window sills, leaving cracks three to four inches high.
In 1906, most of San Francisco was completely destroyed by an earthquake and the fire that resulted from the ruptured fault. Over 28,000 buildings were ruined, yet the city was rebuilt in just over four years.
I like San Francisco, yet I rarely praise it. The City by the Bay managed to put itself together; it’s time for New York to do the same.
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