*Hmmm. I see that, in my absence from the US, New Orleans has become an awesome Y2K survivalist dystopia.
I wonder how many of these "unprecedented" events
the American public is going to take before they get
it about climate change. And what then? It's going
to be interesting to live in a society where climate change
and energy are the major everyday topics. "Nine-eleven."
We lost a couple of buildings then. This is an
entire city.
I'm wondering whether to go there. I saw
the aftermath of Andrew in '92. That was one of
the most interesting things I ever personally witnessed.
And soon I'll be in East Texas, if all goes
as planned. The temptation is gnawing me.
WRAPUP 2-Bodies, gunfire and chaos in New Orleans' streets
Thursday 1 September 2005, 5:42pm EST
(Updates throughout; changes byline)
By Mark Babineck
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Rotting bodies littered New Orleans' streets on Thursday and troops headed in to control looting and violence, as thousands of desperate survivors of Hurricane Katrina pleaded to be evacuated from the flooded city, or even just fed.
(((Imagine the public reaction when the next hurricane
approaches. Last year Florida took four. Imagine if
Lousiana takes three more.)))
The historic jazz city became a playground for armed looters, and sporadic gunfire hampered chaotic and widely criticized rescue efforts.
(((You'd think that, after years of "relief efforts," the Bush
Administration would be right on top of this kind of thing.)))
The mayhem in New Orleans, after Katrina's attack on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, resembled a refugee crisis in a Third World hot spot.
(((Baghdad, for instance.)))
There was a television report that a sniper opened fire on rescue workers as they tried to evacuate sick patients from a flooded hospital.
Bodies lay in the streets and attackers armed with axes and steel pipes stripped hospitals of medicine. Authorities said they feared thousands of people were dead but they could still only guess at the death toll.
Here, read this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/055357292X/104-5174740-6269502?v=glance
My darkest sci-fi disaster scenario looks a little milder and more realistic every day
