Katrina

Katrina reveals our flaws and strengths

When events like this does not effect us at the platform in which this tragedy affects them ...is all to familiar.... With all the comfort and day to day running of our lives we tend to take it for granted our place on this small planet, and our general well-being have bought us forgetfulness. We gaze on images of suffering from natural disasters that strike poorer and rich countries and can't quite picture this nation succumbing to the same dark impulses. We are lucky to be living in this part of earth....


Looting, whether fueled by need or greed. Violent strikes at rescuers who pass by en route to saving another, seemingly more desperate neighbor or stranger. Mob scenes at buses that arrive to evacuate hurricane survivors from one shelter to another. These are horrors that occur in some other place, right? Except in our own yard and we just watch it without figuring it out that directly and indirectly if DOES affect us. Not long ago we had the snatch cases it peaked and died out. So as long it does not affect us its ok right???
Think again.

Looking at Hurricane Katrina for me it has proven those pretentions wrong.
Thieves have taken not food or medical supplies but appliances and other non-critical merchandise from store shelves. Federal emergency teams have called off operations in some spots after the outbreak of gunfire, potshots being taken at helicopters heading to rescue patients at hospitals. Media covering the hurricane aftermath are warned against eating or drinking in public, which could anger the needy in the area, and against remaining in disaster zones after nightfall.

Those darker impulses exist in all of us. but admist all the "terror" so do the heroic ones. I salute and admire the heroic ones they without rhyme and reason step up to the plate to deliver

Bless them