Moving out
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pecuniumMaia and I are going on a Charity Ride in the hills above Berkeley. So I'll be, semi-blissfully, out of the loop until Monday.
Her mother's cell has roaming, and I am giving that number to the NCO who would be co-ordinating aid to Kartrina victims (which is, sadly, more than just those folks in New Orleans. The whole Gulf Coast took a beating), so there is the possibility I won't be around for a good long while.
If I get the call, and I get the time, I'll let people know I'm on my way. if you don't hear from me soon, well you know where I am.
In the meanwhile, though I know you've heard it elsewhere, if you've got money to spare, send some to a relief agency. The Red Cross (try a local office, New York is also a good one) Noah's Wish (pets need help too) or whatever charity you favor.
The entire city is evacuated. It will be weeks, if not months, before they can go back.
The City of New Orleans had a population of 485,000 people. They have no jobs, no homes, no way to support themselves. Those who are in hotels right now, won't be able to stay in them. They are going to need help, and not just for the week, but probably for months.
Sports stadiums are not going to be enough.
Winter is coming.
Her mother's cell has roaming, and I am giving that number to the NCO who would be co-ordinating aid to Kartrina victims (which is, sadly, more than just those folks in New Orleans. The whole Gulf Coast took a beating), so there is the possibility I won't be around for a good long while.
If I get the call, and I get the time, I'll let people know I'm on my way. if you don't hear from me soon, well you know where I am.
In the meanwhile, though I know you've heard it elsewhere, if you've got money to spare, send some to a relief agency. The Red Cross (try a local office, New York is also a good one) Noah's Wish (pets need help too) or whatever charity you favor.
The entire city is evacuated. It will be weeks, if not months, before they can go back.
The City of New Orleans had a population of 485,000 people. They have no jobs, no homes, no way to support themselves. Those who are in hotels right now, won't be able to stay in them. They are going to need help, and not just for the week, but probably for months.
Sports stadiums are not going to be enough.
Winter is coming.
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Re: I'm not meaning to stir here just actually curious..
Date: 2005-08-31 11:35 pm (UTC)Second, the federal nature of the system means states have to pick up a lot of the slack; some states are poorer than others.
Third, because of so many things (a lot hearkening back to the puritans ethics) most such support (after the immediate aid) is fobbed off onto private groups.
One's house may get paid for, but if one was renting, sorry old bean, rough going, but you'll get by.
Given the massive blow to the economy (and the, as yet, undetermined collateral damage to the rest of the country) it's going to be a long time until it all stabilises again.
In re the evacuation plan... Ha! The myth of individualism, and suchlike make it difficult for most people (oddly enough) to fend for themselves, and makes it hard to get them to accept the costs of having a plan for all.
If/when L.A. gets the really big earthquake we all pretend we expect, it will be horrid. The water lines will break, and there will be riots, and killings, and hundreds of thousands dead.
Because there isn't any way to move 14 millions of people.
TK
Re: I'm not meaning to stir here just actually curious..
Date: 2005-09-01 04:11 am (UTC)when many more of us are likely to be out of work, home, food,...
all over the country. & the world, for that matter.