Originally posted 9/8/06
_heather:I can say in general that hurricane season is hotter than fuck, which sucks because the power goes out and with it the all-important air conditioning.ali_n_jack:
Neil if there's anything you'd like to share about the south at this time please do so.*yields balance of time to Neil*
It like living in the most depressing circumstances possible. Every single day that rolls around you drive to work through devastation. You work in devastation. You talk with people who have been made homeless, people who have no resources left, people who are so depressed they want to kill themselves. You have cold MREs for lunch, just as you will for supper. Then you get to drive back through devastation to get to your apartment where you were one of the incredibly fortunate who have something to live in, instead of the ones who are camping in tents on the golf course across the street from the airport.
And this was Gulfport. It was worse in New Orleans by an order of magnitude. They were still finding dead bodies from Katrina just last month. I simply cannot grasp that this is my country, the richest country ever in the history of the world, and we get treated like this.
Myself, I was lucky. I know SO many others who were not. One of my mechanics was in his last year before retirement and he lost his house, which was paid for, but he had no insurance. Along the Gulf Coast, hurricane insurance is hard to get, believe it or not. Most people don't bother (for what seemed like obvious reasons after the fact -- the adjusters are crooked, the insurance companies won't pay, and it's just another hoop you are forced through).
It continues to astonish me that more people do not know what its like there. I've taken people for short tours through Gulfport, and the devastation is like nothing they have ever seen. Apparently, CNN didn't really focus on what happened. Or the small screen just can't convey this sort of thing. You have to be there.
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"Go fuck yourself!"
-- VP Dick "I gots other priorities, bitches" Cheney on the floor of the United States Senate
And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
-- Plato
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