Saturday, September 03, 2005
Hurricane Katrina
Watching TV from my home in California it is hard to believe that what looks like a 3rd world country is actually the gulf cost of this United States. It looks really bad. MS LA and AL almost do look like a nuclear attack. What's not underwater in New Orleans seems to be on fire. Yesterday I was watching fox they were filming a building fire. It looked like a melting candle.
Unfortunately do to the lack of water pressure there wasn't much the fire department could do and in the end the building collapsed. However things have taken a brighter turn. More troops have come into the cities and are clearing people out. The last 300 people in the Superdome have been airlifted to shelters. Things arn't better yet but as bad as they were even 24 hrs ago they seem to be much better now.
Notice how things got better one day after the president arrived?
They say the death toll is supposedly in the thousands. However the media tends to catastrophize just about everything. I do not see the death toll raising above more than maybe 200 or 300. I find it pretty unlikely that the death toll in New Orleans is anywhere near 10,000 like Senator Vitter seems to claim it is. I'm not there so I could be wrong. I hope I'm not.
What we need right now is a leader like Giuliani was during 9/11. Right now there really isn't one. The mayors and governors need to stop crying and at least one of them needs to step up to the plate and be in charge.
Unfortunately do to the lack of water pressure there wasn't much the fire department could do and in the end the building collapsed. However things have taken a brighter turn. More troops have come into the cities and are clearing people out. The last 300 people in the Superdome have been airlifted to shelters. Things arn't better yet but as bad as they were even 24 hrs ago they seem to be much better now.
Notice how things got better one day after the president arrived?
They say the death toll is supposedly in the thousands. However the media tends to catastrophize just about everything. I do not see the death toll raising above more than maybe 200 or 300. I find it pretty unlikely that the death toll in New Orleans is anywhere near 10,000 like Senator Vitter seems to claim it is. I'm not there so I could be wrong. I hope I'm not.
What we need right now is a leader like Giuliani was during 9/11. Right now there really isn't one. The mayors and governors need to stop crying and at least one of them needs to step up to the plate and be in charge.
