Anniversary
Tomorrow is the third anniversary of Katrina coming ashore at Waveland, Mississippi, which was followed the next day by the catastrophic failure of the levees in New Orleans, and the loss of thousands of lives.
With Gustav trying to get its act together in the Caribbean the Gulf Coast is reacting. This is good because everyone now realizes that the Federal government under the Hedgemony is totally worthless when it comes to disasters.
On this anniversary Scout at First Draft notes: “We don’t need a reminder, we just need to fucking Remember.”
[I realize that’s shrill, but dealing with mildew encrusted sheetrock does that to you.]
I would note that in addition to the anniversary of the flooding in New Orleans, Friday is also McCain’s 72nd birthday, which is relevant only because the President of the United States decided to eat Senator McCain’s birthday cake in Arizona, rather than doing anything about the hundreds who were drowning in a major city.
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One blog that I frequented during that time was Gulf Sails. He has sailed onto other writing jobs, but I remember checking in…and getting my heart broken.
http://gulfsails.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_archive.html
I am 200 miles to the East of Waveland, and we got an 8-foot storm surge that washed out a road on our barrier island. The water was higher than Ivan, which came ashore on top of us.