Yep. Seems the main part of the "planning" was to say "it'll probably never
happen here..."
> Saw a programme on BBC News 24 when some environmentalist
> guy was on saying "see, we told you so!!" and then all the viewers
> txt-ed in and were going "aw whatever, sure they're the richest country
> in the world, they can sort it out" and "bout time they got to see how
> the rest of the world live"; the environmentalist was all
> "b-b-but suffering is suffering, whereever it happens! you nasty heartless
> viewers" and then they had a 20 minute feature about the impact on the
> Insurance Industry.
> I was feeling a bit nauseous by then so I changed channels.
>
> My own impression, for what its worth, was the the US authorities,
> despite knowing there was gonna be a big hurricane, didn't bother
> helping some of their poorest citizens to evacuate properly and so as
> usual, all the poorest people suffer the most, as they had no transport
> or means of getting out and safe till the storm was over.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>
> To: "Mellotronists" <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:00 AM
> Subject: Fw: [Mellotronists] Re: OT: How big a story (overseas) is the
> hurricane/New Orleans flood?
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>> Not trying to be argumentative, I can only say that watching cable news
>> coverage of ordinary people trying to cope somehow with the sudden
>> catastrophe that has befallen them, many of whom have lost everything
>> they
>> owned with no hope of recoup, I have yet to see anyone carrying a
>> computer
>> or a television set and I can't help but wonder about a media (I'm sorry,
>> that should be "liberal media") that films people trudging through
>> chest-deep water that is filled with agitated displaced wildlife, hidden
>> obstacles, assorted poisons, dead things, sewage, and who knows what
>> else,
>> and who are carrying a gym bag packed with loaves of bread, bottled
>> water,
>> and packages of Pampers, damaged goods which will only end up in a
>> landfill
>> otherwise, stuff that they scavenged from a washed-out WalMart that they
>> made it to without dying, and which has enough insurance coverage to
>> actually profit on the corporate level from this kind of event...
>>
>> ... and refers to them as "looters."
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>>> Unbelievable, the scale of this disaster.
>>> Unbelievable also, the looting.
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