Oh, and another thing?

[kyburg]

I can't imagine anything being much more terrifying that being told you have to sit inside a covered arena in the near-dark after the power is lost, during the strongest hurricane in forty years - and you can't leave, go anywhere or do anything about it because you can't afford it.

And then multiply that by multitudes if you are too elderly and frail, as well as broke.

You want suckage, that's about pegs the meter in my book.

Katrina, huh.

If she had a face, she'd look like Ann Coulter.

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[miwasatoshi.livejournal.com]

The buses were probably A) already full B) running out of fuel.

Consider that all the routes out of town were already choked with traffic, AND they used both-way evacuation (meaning they closed off the freeway lanes heading to NO and used them for people to get out).

If you can successfully plan evacuating 1.5 million people out of ANY city in two days, then you should be Louisiana and not on LiveJournal. The truth is there is no magic wand you can wave to save everyone. People are doing what they can to get by and to help others if they can.

Maybe you should too.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I guess you haven't seen my posts pimping the Red Cross everywhere.

And there's nothing I can do *now* to remedy things like three years' worth of Federal funding that was supposed to go to levee repairs going to the Iraq war instead.

I'd be dead if I was in LA right now because I'm a disabled, medication-dependent wheelchair user. I'd be working at my local Red Cross now if I could do a goddamned thing that wouldn't just be more of a burden. I've dumped my change jars into CoinStar machines and given every penny we could spare to the Red Cross, but since I'm living on a Social Security check, that wasn't much. But I've done all I can, and I'm still doing it. I'm considering sending out my fiancee if they can use him, which leaves me without a caretaker, but I think I can manage to feed and bathe myself for a month, mostly.

Thanks for the cruel assumptions. Next time, check them at the door of your own LJ.