Katrina: Disaster and Relief
I found an excellent resource that lists organizations who can help out, here.For the best essay I've read so far, go here.
This really is unfolding as a national tragedy. I'm starting to wonder if The Big Easy will ever recover from this event. I certainly hope so...
Update: I found this post over at Politcal Animal:
It really shakes one to the core. Also, via Josh Marshall, here's a great piece on New Orleans' history from Ari Kelman at Slate...MAYOR: "MOST LIKELY THOUSANDS" DEAD IN NEW ORLEANS....If this turns out to be right, it's truly unbelievable:
"We know there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water," and others dead in attics, Mayor Ray Nagin said. He estimated that at least hundreds had died and "most likely, thousands."
Even as they made plans to effectively empty this city, officials today began to set up a temporary morgue. Nagin said there are significant numbers of bodies floating in the water and many more are believed to be dead inside the attics of houses.
"Do the math," he said.
Good Lord. Thousands?
UPDATE: From comments:
This afternoon Blitzer had the guy from LSU on whose team has been computer modeling this disaster. So far, the guy said that their modeling has been right on. He said that the model predicts that one third of the some 250,000 people who stayed in New Orleans were killed.
This can't be true. It just can't be.
posted by FuzzFinger @ 8/31/2005 07:49:00 PM
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I was enraged when I hear this interview with Chertoff. There were so many reasonable responses, and he chose to deny. He was a little better on Larry King tonight, but still full of praise for what his department has done, and excuses about problems with all the water. I want to see progress, I don't want to hear excuses and denial. Now even the CNN reporters are expressing how appalled they are personally by what they are seeing in the good old US of A. That's truely scary.
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