This Made Me Cry
This afternoon, I sat feeding a baby, watching the news, crying while I watched television coverage of the disaster in Louisiana and Mississippi. A CNN reporter wiped away tears as she interviewed Harvey Jackson, and I wept, too.
I simply cannot believe the devastation from Hurricane Katrina. I have a friend who lives in New Orleans with his family and I can only hope they are all safe and sound.
I simply cannot believe the devastation from Hurricane Katrina. I have a friend who lives in New Orleans with his family and I can only hope they are all safe and sound.
posted by Melodee at Tuesday, August 30, 2005
2 Comments:
Every time I see that clip I cry like a baby. I can't imagine how hopeless and lost he must feel, along with thousands of others in the city. PapaCool has some interesting points in the comment above, the effects of this disaster will be far-reaching.
This particular topic, in discussion on a message board, has led me to understand that I no longer fit in said message board. The social/political/moral attitudes of some of the people on that board do not align with my own. In discussing this disaster and what is now happening in New Orleans, I have come to realize that there are people out there who actually prefer to see Big Brother, Most Outrageous TV Moments, and House! than to see, understand, or relate to what is going on in the world around them.
I have not had much time to watch coverage of this disaster, but I know it is on a scale I can't comprehend. I know it can't be reduced to a tv screen and a few minutes between commercials.
I don't understand how it can be economically feasible to empty and rebuild a city of that size below sea level, and when it could be destroyed in the same fashion at this time next year.
I don't understand why the powers that be didn't have Greyhound buses rolling down there days before it hit, hauling out the poor.
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