Posted in Politics, environment, society, tagged Florida, hurricane, Wilma on October 27, 2005 | No Comments »
At the risk of seeming callous, or worse, I have to wonder if Hurricane Wilma’s “victims” in Florida aren’t in large part responsible for their current plight. Those people had several days’ warning that Wilma was coming. Why on earth didn’t they either evacuate or stock up in preparation for the storm? Florida gets hit [...]
Posted in Politics, environment, tagged Biloxi, George Bush, hurricane, Katrina on September 2, 2005 | No Comments »
Bush in Biloxi showing his concern about the hurricane damage. Good for him. Now let’s see him in New Orleans. At the Superdome.
Posted in Politics, environment, tagged hurricane, Katrina, levees, New Orleans on September 1, 2005 | No Comments »
The breached New Orleans levees were built to withstand only a category 3 hurricane, according to Lt. Gen. Bob Flowers, former commander of the Corp of Engineers, in an interview Wednesday with Bill O’Reilly. On the same program, Stephen Leatherman, PhD, of the Hurricane Research Center, noted that the Dutch, the world’s experts in levee [...]
Posted in International, Politics, environment, tagged hurricane, Katrina, New Orleans, terrorists on August 31, 2005 | No Comments »
I’ve watched with awe and horror the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, and I haven’t words to describe it. It is simply beyond my comprehension.
Yet sadly, as I contemplate how the South will recover from this disaster, in some back corner of my mind a tiny voice asks: Where are the other nations rushing to [...]
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