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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:12:02 -0400
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> From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 9/1/2005 7:36:25 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Essay on New Orleans
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> Friday, September 2, 2005, 12:20:08 AM, Carol Kirschenbaum wrote:
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> CK> Who needs warlords, Bush or al Qaeda when we've got nature? And who
needs
> CK> nature when we've got a population that, when under siege and
threatened,
> CK> shoots each other instead of lending helping hands? Gotta appreciate
the
> CK> attitude of New Yorkers in a crisis, after reading about the
dog-eat-dog
> CK> stuff going on down in the bayous now.
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> New York hadn't collapsed as a community and wasn't full of angry
> people who felt they'd been let down.
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New Yorkers weren't up to their rooftops in water. They could walk, run,
do things. The water is what's making this the worst disaster in U.S.
history. It's far, far worse than 9/11, than Camille or Andrew, maybe even
all of them put together. This might even be worse than the tsunami,
because that water retreated relatively quickly after the tsunami. With
Katrina, first they have to stop the ocean from coming in, then they have
to pump the ocean out with pumps that are under water before they can even
begin to think about cleaning up. There's no dry ground to stand on.
Plus the water isn't pool water. It's polluted beyond belief and probably
by now breeding all sorts of things. This makes 9/11 look like a fender
bender by comparison. I don't even know what it can be compared to. A
nuclear attack maybe. It's probably even worse than that.
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