You're right, that is eerily prescient. I couldn't even stand to read all of it. Just makes me more angry that nothing was done beforehand, and nothing was done faster when it happened. I seriously hope they don't rebuild there.
I am also a little - pleasantly - surprised that there hasn't been a lashing out from the conservative Christians that this is a sign of armageddon, or that these people deserved it because they live in a city of sin, etc etc.
Still working on vacation plans; the moving situation has been changing daily.
I am also a little - pleasantly - surprised that there hasn't been a lashing out from the conservative Christians that this is a sign of armageddon, or that these people deserved it because they live in a city of sin, etc etc.
There has been a little bit - I saw one email from a pro-life group and one "this is all because of the gays" rant, but it seems pretty confined so far. Pat Robertson must be waiting to see how much money his charity pulls in before he says anything.
I can't even imagine how they're going to decide what to do with the city.
The moving situation is still changing!?! That sucks.
The New Orleans Picayune also printed an article about a year pre-Katrina that outlined what would happen if the levees broke. It reads like a play-by-play manual. It makes me so mad every time some stupid official says "We didn't know the levees could break," or "Whoda thunkit?". CNN, the bastion of investigative reporting that it isn't, was commenting on the levels of destruction that would happen if the levees broke in their pre-Katrina coverage. The possibility of the levees breaking was one of the stated reasons for instituting a mandatory evacuation. In the 1960s the US Senate passed money for a project to shore up the levees, for fear of them breaking (the project was still not finished as of Katrina
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I am also a little - pleasantly - surprised that there hasn't been a lashing out from the conservative Christians that this is a sign of armageddon, or that these people deserved it because they live in a city of sin, etc etc.
Still working on vacation plans; the moving situation has been changing daily.
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There has been a little bit - I saw one email from a pro-life group and one "this is all because of the gays" rant, but it seems pretty confined so far. Pat Robertson must be waiting to see how much money his charity pulls in before he says anything.
I can't even imagine how they're going to decide what to do with the city.
The moving situation is still changing!?! That sucks.
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They better, that's all I can say.
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