Archive for February, 2006
Five Months Later and What Do You Get?
I haven’t written much about Hurricane Katrina since last year. I suppose I felt like all my essays were falling on tired eyes, which is not to say that people don’t care, but more that many people are in the same boat as I am: the problems are so complex, so vast, and so overwhelming that it just feels like a tear in a bucket. I know the history of New Orleans and so I have a grasp of how messed up things were before – and maybe that’s a helpful or maybe it’s a hindrance, something negative to focus on so that the worst self-fulfilling prophecies seem to be coming true. I have faith in the people of New Orleans. The politicians? Not so much.
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