[lit-ideas] Re: New Orleans
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:17:49 -0400
I think now is an appropriate time to ask Marlena what the religious folks
think about this. The reds are convinced God smote the heathens with the
tsunami. Well, what's the explanation for destroying the biggest port in
this country, sixth in the world? It's going to cost staggering amounts of
money, money we don't have, to rebuild that area, not to mention the damage
to the oil industry and the effect that higher oil prices will have. All
that contaminated water could spread disease too. Humans can choose evil,
but nobody chose this except God. Well, Marlena, what's the deal? What's
God up to? Reds not praying hard enough or what?
> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/30/2005 10:48:18 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: New Orleans
>
> Julie wrote:
>
>
> > <<60,000 people in the Superdome>>
>
> > How did it get to be that many? Yesterday they were reporting roughly
> > 10,000..... I heard NPR say they were going to have to evacuate the
> > superdome -- how in the world do you evacuate even 10,000 people?! And
> > to where??
>
> The latest figure I heard (I'm half-listening to CNN right now) is
> 20,000, with more making their way to what's the only remaining shelter
> in New Orleans. It was 90º (32º C) today in New Orleans. It's hotter
> inside the Dome. No toilets. No electricity. There is no drinking water
> in the city, none.
>
> Eighty-percent of New Orleans is under water. Some areas are not yet
> accessible even to rescue craft. The mayor would like all 800,000
> residents to evacuate the city, although as Julie says, where would they
> go, and how would they get there? In any case, those who did leave won't
> be able to return for a very long time.
>
> Flood water is not like water from your bathtub only deeper: it's filled
> with human waste, dead animals, trees, mud, logs, boards, plastic
> containers, gasoline, diesel fuel, toxic chemicals, germs?and in this
> case, poisonous snakes. The city's pumps, which were designed to remove
> accumulations of rainwater, etc., don't work, of course, and if they're
> ever functional again they won't be able to cope with such a mass of
water.
>
> They're unable, as of now, to repair the breached levies, and the water
> is still rising.
>
> On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, there is equally terrible destruction.
> Many deaths.
>
> Robert Paul
> Reed College
>
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