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Sep. 2nd, 2005 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helikedmyshoesThe TV here at the apartment has been out since Sunday, which is probably good because all I would be watching is the hurricane coverage. It was the same with 9/11, glued to the TV for days watching the desperation deepen, the death toll rise, reality set in. New Orleans is GONE.
Gone.
One day children will ask, did you ever get to see New Orleans before the Big Hurricane? And I'll say no. It's funny, last week I had at least three different people ask if I'd ever been, and then told me that I had to go. And now it doesn't exist anymore. It's a modern day Atlantis. A place that has devolved in a few short days into hell on earth, where people are suffering and dying and living in conditions I can't even begin to fathom because they have to survive, because what other choice is there at this point?
And the looting, and the killings, and the rapes...it's all so vile, so awful, that human beings are capable of such atrocities in a time when so many people are hurting, when so many people have been violated in so many ways by this terrible force of nature.
And there's nothing anyone can do, there's no country to invade now, there's no war to start. George Bush can't get on TV and say, "We're going to find the cloud that did this, we're going to fly through every part of the atmosphere until we find it, and then it's going to pay for what it's done to this great land."
What's been bothering me is how little the Mississippi coastline is being talked about. Yes, New Orleans is in a desperate state, but parts of Mississippi don't even EXIST anymore. There's nothing but rubble and maybe some water-logged picture frames that are starting to blur. Those people lost EVERYTHING. At least New Orleans is still standing.
Of course, I just spend the last hour reading about the things people in New Orleans are having to live through, and it made me not be so bothered with Mississippi. It makes me sick, and it makes my heart ache for these people, and I wish there was something I can do but there's nothing like a tragedy to make you feel helpless and lost and scared for a city that will never recover and for people that lost everything they had.
The ocean finally decided to take back what was its own.
The shock is coming slowly, but it's there. And it's getting worse. Those poor, poor people. That poor city.
Gone.
One day children will ask, did you ever get to see New Orleans before the Big Hurricane? And I'll say no. It's funny, last week I had at least three different people ask if I'd ever been, and then told me that I had to go. And now it doesn't exist anymore. It's a modern day Atlantis. A place that has devolved in a few short days into hell on earth, where people are suffering and dying and living in conditions I can't even begin to fathom because they have to survive, because what other choice is there at this point?
And the looting, and the killings, and the rapes...it's all so vile, so awful, that human beings are capable of such atrocities in a time when so many people are hurting, when so many people have been violated in so many ways by this terrible force of nature.
And there's nothing anyone can do, there's no country to invade now, there's no war to start. George Bush can't get on TV and say, "We're going to find the cloud that did this, we're going to fly through every part of the atmosphere until we find it, and then it's going to pay for what it's done to this great land."
What's been bothering me is how little the Mississippi coastline is being talked about. Yes, New Orleans is in a desperate state, but parts of Mississippi don't even EXIST anymore. There's nothing but rubble and maybe some water-logged picture frames that are starting to blur. Those people lost EVERYTHING. At least New Orleans is still standing.
Of course, I just spend the last hour reading about the things people in New Orleans are having to live through, and it made me not be so bothered with Mississippi. It makes me sick, and it makes my heart ache for these people, and I wish there was something I can do but there's nothing like a tragedy to make you feel helpless and lost and scared for a city that will never recover and for people that lost everything they had.
The ocean finally decided to take back what was its own.
The shock is coming slowly, but it's there. And it's getting worse. Those poor, poor people. That poor city.
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Date: 2005-09-02 08:31 pm (UTC)