From: Walter Buller - giembryo@hotmail.com
Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:48 AM
Katrin in USA
We live about 85 miles north of New Orleans. The eye of the
storm passed right over Washington Parish, which is a neighboring
parish of ours to the east a little ways. All the media attention
has been on New Orleans because of the size of the city and
it's notoriety, but cities like Bogalusa in Washington Parish
were hit by even higher winds than New Orleans was, consequently
it is hard to recognize them anymore. Worse yet, there was no
official federal response to the plight of the people there.
A number of private convoys enroute to Washington Parish with
very badly needed supplies of water, food, and medical stuff
were stopped by FEMA personnel and had all their supplies confiscated,
ostensibly for the people in New Orleans. I have been listening
to the radio ever since the storm came through. Caller after
caller who has been in New Orleans lately has painted a mental
picture of conditions there that is impossible to describe,
except maybe with the word "hell". Human waste floating
in the same water the people are standing in waiting to be rescued.
Alligators eating the bodies of dead babies. Sharks seen swimming
down Canal Street. Estimates of approximately 20,000 dead.
Policemen committing suicide from the stress and fear caused
from being outgunned on the streets by the black gangs who now
have AK-47's and such looted from sporting goods stores. Darkness
everywhere. A number of National Guard troops are there now
so some semblence of order is being restored. The sheriff of
St.Bernard Parish hired 100 additional deputies, issued assault
rifles to them, and gave them orders to shoot looters on sight.
About 10 of them have been killed the past few days. Experts
predict a timetable of 30 to 80 days before the water can be
pumped back out into Lake Ponchatrain. By that time the houses
and businesses there will hardly be worth trying to save. Those
who have been allowed back in to retrieve some personnel items
were saying on the radio this morning that the stench is unbearable.
Nobody knows yet how many people drowned in their attics trying
to get above the rising water. The smart ones brought axes or
something with them which they used to chop a hole in the roof
big enough to crawl through so they could stand on their rooftops
and hope to be rescued. Lots of people have been critical of
the poor performance of FEMA in responding quickly enough to
the needs of the people in the area, so I called the main radio
station, got on the air, and explained to the listeners that
FEMA is not what they think it is. It is not so much a disaster
relief agency as a quasi-military arm of the Federal Government,
equivalent to having martial law declared when they are present.
Of course the self-serving talk from all the politicians is
that they will rebuild New Orleans. But the wise thing to do,
which is not politically correct, is to realize that with New
Orleans already 15 feet below sea-level and sinking more and
more every year, and the chances good that another hurricane
will wipe it out again in the future, we ought to abandon the
cesspool of crime, corruption, sin and degradation that New
Orleans has become, relocate the people or build the city on
higher ground someplace. But meanwhile the population of Baton
Rouge has doubled overnight from all the refugees from New Orleans,
with the resultant strain on police personnel, city services,
charities, and roadways.
This is the worst disaster in our nations history and I fear
that my cousins prophecy about the worst being yet to come will
turn out to be true, just as did her vision of a huge storm
hitting New Orleans and flooding the whole city before the end
of August. She had this vision several weeks before there even
was a hurricane Katrina. We are still without power, but my
generator gets us by. We have become an electricity dependent
society, It was only about 80 years ago that almost nobody in
this country even knew what electricity was, and got along quite
well without it. We need to once again develop that kind of
self reliance.
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