Prayers for the South
I’ve been watching and reading the coverage on what’s going on in Lousiana and Mississippi, and it’s horrible. It’s almost hard to imagine that the area could have been hit so hard, that the cities could have been so vulnerable to something like this. My prayers go out to anyone who is involved, that people will find a place to stay and the power to go on. I don’t know how much of an option rebuilding is, or if its something that should be even done should something like this happen again.
I’ve also been reading message boards and people’s comments on this tragedy, calling this “our tsunami” or as bad as the tsunami that hit Asia. I don’t know how I feel about this. On one hand, I feel it’s horrible that this has happened, that hundreds of lives have been lost, that before this over even more people will die. On the other hand, I don’t see this as something comparable - hundreds of thousands of people died in the tsunami, most people who were not warned about the coming tsunami. There was warning that the hurricane was coming, people were told to evacuate. I’ve heard so many stories from people in the area who evacuated, but who had friends and family who stayed “because we’ve survived it before.”
Still, the loss of life and the destruction of one of the most colorful US cities, not to mention all the damage in the areas that were hardest hit - Southern Missisippi (though the media sometimes seems to forget) is awful, almost hard to imagine. I hope we can get through this, and I hope all the people who have been evacuated find someplace to go.
This is only the beginning….
Looking at the pictures on TV makes me appreciate my boring little life in Iowa. I keep asking myself what I can do to help. Right now I’m trying to decide which relief agency to make my doantion to. NBC has a list of agencys on their site so I need to make a decision soon.
I just can’t imagine what the victims of Katrina are going through. My heart and prayers certainly are with them.
Ditto Sue and Yano. Also worrisoome is the effect that loss of 1/3 of our oil and gas refining capacity will have on the GDP. This could well derail the fragile economic recovery. Of course I’m sure Bechtel, Halliburton and all the other contruction companies will rake in the profits. The superintendent of schools in Lousianan siad 25% of their 701,000 children will be uanble to return to school before sometime in 2006. He’s asking other states to enroll their children and hire their teachers….truly the greatest natural tragedy in our country’s history.
This is horrible, and I do agree w/Yano that the media sems to be spending a disproportionate amount of time on New Orleans. I suppose it’s because of the unique problems faced by the city of New Orleans - there’s lots more to talk about.
Fortunately, I believe the hearts of the charitable organizations and people in general will remember the suffering was widespread and lend a hand to all. They all may not get the same media publicity, but they will be remembered.
as much as i feel for the victims of hurricane katrina, it was in no way a tsunami. yes, katrina was horrible, but it was only a hurricane. the tsunami in asia was devastating! i almost laughed when i heard on the news that people called it ‘our tsunami.’ i mean, cmon! but that’s besides the point now. i really do hope that people stop comparing it to the tsunami, cuz that’s just gonna bite us in the arse. fer real. but yeah…my prayers will go out for those people…i hope that disease will not run as rampant as people expect.
I think I was listening to the news yesterday and a victim of the hurricane was crying out how this kind of thing shouldn’t happen here. As if the tsumani victims didn’t say the same thing? We are all vulnerable to natural disaster. We just need to support the recovery and rescue and pray that we learn to unite with these kind of events instead of disband.
donate, donate, donate to www.redcross.org, that’s all i can say. i’ve been to the south yano, and it breaks my heart to see all this. i’ve donated, you should too.
i’m a nurse and volunteer for the red cross, your donation makes a huge difference, even 5 or 10 dollars.
i have close friends who have family in louisiana and mississippi.
the south is simple, generous and warm in spirit. in terms of economics, this is all they had. how could they leave home, this is their home, their roots, all they have but they’re happy.
it’s like with us, how can we leave chicago, this is our roots.
yano we are truly lucky, donate that’s all i can say. we are truly lucky.
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