damage
New Orleans: I just don’t know what to say. Although the damage has continued for days, I think it is finally sinking in what’s really happening there. One of the more mindblowing things to think of is that they are evacuating people to Dallas because there are A: so many people and B: nowhere to go. Dallas is at least ten hours from New Orleans. Everything from New Orleans to Houston is full - hotels, shelters, churches, even campgrounds are starting to get crowded. I just never imagined that damage in New Orleans could be so severe that they would be setting up shelters in Dallas and Austin.
I realize that one of the reasons that TX is getting most of the refugees is because the road east of New Orleans is basically destroyed. Still, this is crazy. I just read an article in the Austin American Statesman which states that the refugees coming to Austin can enroll their kids in AISD schools for the time they’re there. One of my friends teaches first grade in the Lake Travis area. I’ll have to ask her what the schools are doing to deal with this.
I’ve been reading some really interesting blogs about the destruction of New Orleans . It sounds like the streets are open sewers filled with trash and dead bodies. *sad*
I’m just glad I got to go there and enjoy the city a few times before this happened. It will never be the same again.
*I don’t mean to sound flippant about the situation, but the shock is just starting to wear off and I truly don’t know how to react.*
Thursday 01 Sep 2005 | sarah | Sad