Water Displacement

I don't think that America, or the world, has grasped the enormity of the hurricane Katrina disaster.

The Gulf State region has been obliterated. It doesn't exist anymore. In particular New Orleans is devastated. Gone, probably not to return.

By itself NOLA had a population of 1,337,726. Let me repeat that...1,337,726 do not have a home to which they can return. 1,337,726 do not have a job anymore. 1,337,726 do not have access to medical attention. 1,337,726 do not know where there next meal is coming from. 1,337,726 do not have electricity, fresh water, sewers, telephone or even radio reception. 1,337,726 souls are effectively cut off from the rest of the planet for an undetermined period of time.

Where are the 1,337,726 people going to stay? I have a spare bedroom with a trundle bed. That lowers the bar by two. I don't know about the rest...

I'm not trying to be smarmy. What community could absorb that many new, completely indigent, inhabitants? When you realize that it's not just New Orleans, but Gulfport and Biloxi and hundreds of smaller communities the numbers are potentially much larger.

Wake up America! You cry over one lost child. How about you get off your ass for 1,337,724?

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Currently I'm listening to Refugee from the album "Pack Up The Plantation Live!" by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers