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rain_gryphon) wrote2005-08-31 04:16 am
rain_gryphon) wrote2005-08-31 04:16 am
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Nature's Sucky Wrath
Haley Barbour compared Biloxi to Hiroshima this morning. I'd been thinking that myself. From a distance the whole place has that 'swept clean' look to it that Hiroshima did. I watched a long helicopter tour of the area tonight on MSNBC that was being relayed from a local station.
There's strange stuff too like a pair of highway overpasses in New Orleans with cars parked on top and people standing around. I'd guess they were out driving when the levees broke, and that looked like the only good place. They're sitting there now in the midst of the flood, up on top of this lonely stretch of elevated road that now goes nowhere. I'm reminded of Cows in a flood, standing on the only dry patch, just waiting.
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The Red Cross is advertising for blood donations. I can't imagine there'll be much need for blood. People either drowned or they didn't.
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It's still raining here, although beginning to slack off. The wind came out of the south pretty strongly for a while this afternoon.
There's strange stuff too like a pair of highway overpasses in New Orleans with cars parked on top and people standing around. I'd guess they were out driving when the levees broke, and that looked like the only good place. They're sitting there now in the midst of the flood, up on top of this lonely stretch of elevated road that now goes nowhere. I'm reminded of Cows in a flood, standing on the only dry patch, just waiting.
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The Red Cross is advertising for blood donations. I can't imagine there'll be much need for blood. People either drowned or they didn't.
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It's still raining here, although beginning to slack off. The wind came out of the south pretty strongly for a while this afternoon.