November 30, 2005
The Loss of a Dream
A life in ruins the remains of a families home debries untouched even after three months. Side street in Waveland, MS
After visiting the "Katrina Zone" last week I feel an intense intense rage at how little has been done for the people out of the limelight of newscasts and press coverage. These little towns, Pass Christian, Gulf Shores Gulfport, Slidell and Waveland are not getting the attention that New Orleans gets and the people are there, not evac'ed some place...Read this Washington Post article, and tell me what you think...
Three months ago, Katrina all but scoured this old beach town of 8,000 off the face of the Earth. To walk its streets today is to see acres of wreckage almost as untouched as the day the hurricane passed.
No new houses are framed out. No lots cleared. There is just devastation and a lingering stench and a tent city in which hundreds of residents huddle against the first chill of winter and wonder where they'll find the money to rebuild their lives.
Billy McDonald, the white-haired mayor whose house was reduced to a concrete slab by 55-foot-high waves, works out of a trailer. He doesn't expect the word "recovery" to roll off his lips for many months.read the rest if the story here.
Then there is Florida, The situation among the survivours is so bad that it reminds you of how third world nations deal with things. Absolutly no help for a lot of people.
Read more about it hereI am a supporter of getting your life in order and taking care of your own self, but what I saw shows me that these people need help... Im mean how do you dispose of the trash? How do you get anything done? Its impossible.
I am a reader of
Operation Eden, Clayton and his family have my admiration for their perceverence, I dont know how they do it...
Wood
