Re: Katrina

Earl Evleth writes:

> The evacuations are "faith based". They are "free entreprise
> in character, i.e. "do it yourself". All you have to do is
> hop into your SUV and drive off. Take your credit cards
> so you can check into a motel 100 or 200 miles away. The faith
> is that everybody has these resources. A Paris taxi driver told
> my wife that he thought everybody had a car in the USA.

In some parts of the USA, that's true. It's also true in some suburbs
of Paris, since that's the only form of transportation available.

> The problem in New Orleans is that 27% of the residents
> have no cars and live from week to week for their weekend checks.
> They have no financial reserves. No cars to drive off in and not
> enough money to stay in a motel. One French article today mentioned
> gouging on the rooms in any case.

Inevitably it's the losers and the stupid ones who get stuck behind.

> Anyway, now it is pretty much all over except for they burying.

There are still a lot of survivors trapped in individual dwellings and
other buildings. Of course, they are gradually dying off from
dehydration.

> Charles Womack, a 30-year-old roofer, said he saw one man beaten to death
> and another commit suicide at the Superdome. Womack was beaten with a pipe
> and treated at the airport center, where bodies were kept in a refrigerated
> truck.

Like I said, losers.

> "One guy jumped off a balcony. I saw him do it. He was talking to a lady
> about it. He said it reminded him of the war and he couldn't leave," he
> said.

One less mouth to feed.

> Three babies died at the convention center from heat exhaustion, said Mark
> Kyle, a medical relief provider.

Since they had barely started, moving into a new incarnation will be
much easier.

> But some progress was evident. The last 300 refugees at the Superdome were
> evacuated Saturday evening, eliciting cheers from members of the Texas
> National Guard who had been standing watch over the facility for nearly a
> week as some 20,000 hurricane survivors waited for rescue.

What about the rest of the city?

> The exact number of dead won't be known for some time. Survivors were still
> being plucked from roofs and shattered highways across the city.

It sounds as if people assume that all the survivors converged on the
convention center and the Superdome. I seriously doubt that this was
the case. There are going to be lots of bodies in the cities, in the
places that haven't even been examined yet.

> "There are people in apartments and hotels that you didn't know were there,"
> Army Brig. Gen. Mark Graham said.

That's an understatement.

> The overwhelming majority of those stranded in the post-Katrina chaos were
> those without the resources to escape ? and, overwhelmingly, they were
> black.

People who are poor and without resources tend to be unintelligent.
There are more blacks at the bottom of the curve than whites because
of the 1 SD difference in average IQ between the two ethnic groups.

Smart blacks have already left, of course. And stupid whites are
still stuck in the city, along with everyone else.

Of course, not everyone who is too poor to leave is necessarily
stupid, but there's a strong correlation between the two.

> Tens of thousands of people had been evacuated from the city, seeking safety
> in Texas, Tennessee and many other states.

We'll see how welcome they remain as the weeks and months wear on.

> Texas Gov. Rick Perry warned Saturday that his enormous state was running
> out of room, with more than 220,000 hurricane refugees camped out there and
> more coming. Emergency workers at the Astrodome were told to expect 10,000
> new arrivals daily for the next three days.

He'll need to get used to them. They are going to be there for a long
time.

> Nita LaGarde, 105, was pushed down the street in her wheelchair as her
> nurse's 5-year-old granddaughter, Tanisha Blevin, held her hand. The pair
> spent two days in an attic, two days on an interstate island and the last
> four days on the pavement in front of the convention center.
>
> "They're good to see," LaGarde said, with remarkable gusto as she waited to
> be loaded onto a gray Marine helicopter. She said they were sent by God.
> "Whatever he has for you, he'll take care of you. He'll sure take care of
> you."

God helps those who help themselves.

> Dan Craig, director of recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
> said it could take up to six months to get the water out of New Orleans, and
> the city would then need to dry out, which could take up to three more
> months.

So the city will be uninhabitable for at least a year.

> A Saks Fifth Avenue store billowed smoke Saturday, as did rows of warehouses
> on the east bank of the Mississippi River, where corrugated roofs buckled
> and tiny explosions erupted. Gunfire ? almost two dozen shots ? broke out in
> the French Quarter.

Obviously many of the losers are still in residence.

> In the French Quarter, some residents refused or did not know how to get
> out. Some holed up with guns.

To protect against what?

> As the warehouse district burned, Ron Seitzer, 61, washed his dirty laundry
> in the even dirtier waters of the Mississippi River and said he didn't know
> how much longer he could stay without water or power, surrounded by looters.

Unless he plans to stay that way for a year or so, it might be best to
leave.

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