Man, I am both simultaneously depressed and inexplicably in awe when I look at these images. Mostly because this amount of destruction never ceases to amaze me, and yet piss me off. So many homes and lives could've been saved if people hadn't been so stupid about where their funds should be going into.
I drove past most of those places on my way from NO to Atlanta this summer... there are whole sections of I-10 in Mississippi and Alabama that are STILL fucked up and under construction. We were GOING to take highway 90 but it's in worse shape than I-10 is.
You don't understand the magnitude of the storm until you drive the coast. Nobody does. And nobody who didn't live through it can understand the sheer size of the devestation.
New Orleans is easy for people to latch onto because there's something about that city that people just automatically love, and because the devestation there was heartbreaking on an entirely different level than across the rest of the Gulf Coast. But when all the money gets funneled to NO, and none of the relief gets to the rest of the coast, where does that leave everyone else?
And now the oil spill on top of all the ruins that still haven't been rebuilt. It makes me so mad I could explode.
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Oh priorities.
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You don't understand the magnitude of the storm until you drive the coast. Nobody does. And nobody who didn't live through it can understand the sheer size of the devestation.
New Orleans is easy for people to latch onto because there's something about that city that people just automatically love, and because the devestation there was heartbreaking on an entirely different level than across the rest of the Gulf Coast. But when all the money gets funneled to NO, and none of the relief gets to the rest of the coast, where does that leave everyone else?
And now the oil spill on top of all the ruins that still haven't been rebuilt. It makes me so mad I could explode.
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