Floods

[mickeyse]

This is not the right music. Beethoven is in a really good mood. Saw a lady on TV saying she couldn't believe she was in America - that the floods made her city look like devastation in a third world country and to be sure from the pictures we're getting here, I'd have to agree, it looked like the Indonesian Tsunami. Floods have no respect for the

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[lizah]

The situation in new orleans is crazy. I am really shocked at how much of a shambles the rescue and evacuation effort is in. It is not the sort of thing one expects to see in America. I am guessing that a lot of the people stuck in the superdome simply do not own cars ... but even still one has to wonder how much warning people were given that they _really_ need to evacuate.

A very toned town Katrina was meant to hit Pittsburgh yesterday, but it seems it took a turn and despite all the flood warnings we actually had very little rain in the end.

Katrina

[mickeyse]

What also worried me, but I held back from saying in that post, was that I saw so many black people in distress or looting or just in the middle of it all and had to wonder were the poorer sections of town less assisted in some way? Was it easier for rich people to get out quickly? It could be coincidence but that was another reason why the scenes we saw here on tv could have been from an African country. I've never been to New Orleans, but I imagine the poor neighbourhoods there would shock aussies like other American cities do. Of course Austalia can't point the finger - the worst aboriginal communities aren't part of our cities generally speaking and the numbers of people in them are small - but they are evidence of inter-racial crime. I'm glad to hear Katrina veered away from Pittsburgh.