It is a crying shame that there is so much blame to going around. I would think the government would spend more time getting the Mississippi Valley, Alabama and New Orleans back on it’s feet. Here is one person’s response:
http://journals.aol.com/johnmscalzi/bytheway/entries/4709/
http://journals.aol.com/johnmscalzi/bytheway/entries/4714
http://journals.aol.com/johnmscalzi/bytheway/entries/4717
http://journals.aol.com/johnmscalzi/bytheway/entries/4734
http://journals.aol.com/johnmscalzi/bytheway/entries/4735
My mom says that we have cousins who lives outside the New Orleans Area. My second cousin is going out to check on them as soon as possible. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected, and I hope my family is all right.
UPDATE: 2010-10-03-913TZ-400
Good evening. I’ve removed the links to the webpages above because, sadly, aol has chosen to completely remove its entire archive of aoljournals. I'm sure if you enter the above links into the Internet Wayback Machine, you will find out what Mr. Scalzi posted.
TAGS: katrina, hurricane, gulf, coast, new, orleans, alabama, mississippi, valley, musings.
