Metamorphoses- Reports from Baton Rouge
Metamorphoses is the latest post on Modern Day Estella’s site (if you’re just joining us she put up a lot of front line info from Baton Rouge, La on our site earlier in the chaos). She is keeping current reports coming as Hurricane Rita’s effects begin to felt there already.
I highly advise her extremely cogent take on things….
September 23rd, 2005 at 11:21 am
Industrial Canal Levee In Lower 9th Ward Has Been Overtopped, Is Likely to Breach
details on http://metamorphoses94.blogspot.com
it’s on cnn, foxnews, wdsu new orleans, doubtless others …
September 23rd, 2005 at 11:29 am
That’s a great blog. Many thanks for the recommendation!
September 23rd, 2005 at 11:49 am
Not again. Not again. FUCK. I’m so damn weary. Between the storms and the way we have been abandoned to rot by our own governmental system I find myself seriously contemplating moving out of the country if I cannot return to NO. I try to maintain my attitude and motivation but damn, it just won’t stop.
At 39 I just don’t have the strength or constitution to be the angry young punk activist I was in the ’80s. Thankfully I have Alexis and my cats. As long as my family is intact I will carry on, they are my inspiration and my reason to continue trying to build a better world than the one we have now.
I’m sure that the pharmaceutical companies are experienceing increased profits, antidepressant sales must be skyrocketing.
September 23rd, 2005 at 11:58 am
What scares me the most is that for a catastrophe of this magnitude to occur, it took decades of neglect. People for years talked cavalierly about the “worst case scenario” and even that this would be devastating not only to New Orleans, but to the rest of the country. You’d think that if they knew of our importance they would have done something, other than making facile comparisons to a bowl. The poverty problem and the people everybody forgot except when voting time came around have been problems for years. Why did it take 2 category 4 hurricanes to bring thsi to the nation’s attention? What was our congressional delegation doing? I’ve worked om political campaigns for over a decade. I’ve seen them get the buses out to “get out the vote.” That is the ONLY time anybody appears to have thought about the poor of our city.