Geez... you take one day off from your blog, and it turns out to be on Blog Day. Dang...
Anyway, yesterday was my day off of work, as previously mentioned in many articles. Spent a day alternating between a dentist's chair, the couch in front of a tv, and the streets of Falcon Heights.
Tough to drag myself away from watching all the stuff that's happening down south. Just incredible footage, and getting even more incredible by the hour. If anyone's looking for an easy place to donate money, there's the Red Cross site, of course, which is currently recieving a TON of traffic. Also, Amazon has an area where you can donate using your account, so you don't have to fill any application. Since its also a site that's built for a lot more traffic, its a safe bet. That's where I did my donating today. And eBay has a site set up where you can buy or sell in auctions in which some or all proceeds go to various relief organizations.
It's just really difficult to say anything about what's going on down there. Analyzing it, throwing blame around, just feels to me like demeaning the situation. Say what you will about the preparedness, the reactions, the evacuation efforts, but there's really no good way to prepare for what we're seeing. It's impossible to evacuate a city that size in that short of a time, period. Especially since this storm really wasn't that powerful until it hit the gulf, there were a lot of people who thought they could weather the storm out, evacuation announcement or not.
People in the south are doing the best that they can in a situation where an ocean just fell on their town. It doesn't matter how many police or National Guard are out there. Once the levees broke there was no way it could end well.
Like during 9/11, you're seeing the best and worst of people coming out in a situation like this. People are donating time, money, & supplies by the truckload. Trucks full of volunteers are driving down to the area.
Unfortunately, from what I've been reading, there's been a lot more bad happening. It's becoming a man v. nature fight down there. Rescue efforts have been hindered, even cancelled, because of violence. Evacuation of the Super Dome was put on hold because someone shot at the helicopter. Price gougers in Georgia area are charging 6 dollars a gallon for gas.
I don't know what I'm saying. I'm just trying to get feelings out on blog and it slowly turns into just ramblings. Sometimes my sociology brain perks up when it shouldn't, and starts taking another view of things.
I'll just shut up for now and come back when I'm a little more coherant.
Anyway, yesterday was my day off of work, as previously mentioned in many articles. Spent a day alternating between a dentist's chair, the couch in front of a tv, and the streets of Falcon Heights.
Tough to drag myself away from watching all the stuff that's happening down south. Just incredible footage, and getting even more incredible by the hour. If anyone's looking for an easy place to donate money, there's the Red Cross site, of course, which is currently recieving a TON of traffic. Also, Amazon has an area where you can donate using your account, so you don't have to fill any application. Since its also a site that's built for a lot more traffic, its a safe bet. That's where I did my donating today. And eBay has a site set up where you can buy or sell in auctions in which some or all proceeds go to various relief organizations.
It's just really difficult to say anything about what's going on down there. Analyzing it, throwing blame around, just feels to me like demeaning the situation. Say what you will about the preparedness, the reactions, the evacuation efforts, but there's really no good way to prepare for what we're seeing. It's impossible to evacuate a city that size in that short of a time, period. Especially since this storm really wasn't that powerful until it hit the gulf, there were a lot of people who thought they could weather the storm out, evacuation announcement or not.
People in the south are doing the best that they can in a situation where an ocean just fell on their town. It doesn't matter how many police or National Guard are out there. Once the levees broke there was no way it could end well.
Like during 9/11, you're seeing the best and worst of people coming out in a situation like this. People are donating time, money, & supplies by the truckload. Trucks full of volunteers are driving down to the area.
Unfortunately, from what I've been reading, there's been a lot more bad happening. It's becoming a man v. nature fight down there. Rescue efforts have been hindered, even cancelled, because of violence. Evacuation of the Super Dome was put on hold because someone shot at the helicopter. Price gougers in Georgia area are charging 6 dollars a gallon for gas.
I don't know what I'm saying. I'm just trying to get feelings out on blog and it slowly turns into just ramblings. Sometimes my sociology brain perks up when it shouldn't, and starts taking another view of things.
I'll just shut up for now and come back when I'm a little more coherant.
posted by Bill at 12:11 PM
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