Fabric of Society
Cow's been through some disasters. First the Los Angeles riots after Rodney King. Amazing how quickly an entire metro area can become a ghost town, everyone holed up watching the looters on tv. All businesses closed, no one outside at all. Fear was the operative word, with disbelief at the LAPD second.Next was Hurricane Katrina. When the National Guard rolled into town after about 5 days, lines for their supplies, and others, were orderly. Meeting up with someone was the only way to know anything since mostly, the phones were down, and of course no electric. Operative words were gas, water, digging out, and long, long time.
The line which separates an orderly society from one which disintegrates seems very fragile. Despite this age of internet, without power, or cell phone towers, they will be useless.
Wondering why aid isn't getting to needed areas quicker, these photos really explain it best.
posted by The Topiary Cow at
5:58 PM
11 Comments:
Wow. Very sad. Very scary.
I'm glad they've started parachuting stuff in. Hopefully it will reassure people who think they've been forgotten.
a terrible situation, even with the pictures it's hard to understand why aid has taken so long - it wasn't like they had to invent the parachute!
Disasters, whatever, wherever, completely through off everything one has ever know. Death and destruction will erase all the signposts that civilization can rely on. When Hurricane Andrew showed up in Florida in 1992, the areas hit took 10-15 years to recover. Miami had received only a glancing blow and still took a long time to back up to speed. And people moved north to rum away, like the storms couldn't find them, and changed Florida forever. What really happens is the air of invulnerability is gone. And one watching from afar wonders, am I next?
Karen, yes, we take so much for granted, but one catastrophe can sweep it all away.
Amazingly, there are 18 earthquakes Haiti-size every YEAR! they just usually happen in unpopulated areas.
Gorilla: yes, hoping we have a lot of parachutes...Glad too they are doing that.
Lulu: maybe they didn't have too many? Or maybe because unscrupulous people would grab the supplies instead of distributing them to lots 'o people?
RJ: Yes indeed. Hurricane Andrew was miles and miles of complete devastation, this was one of the worst disasters in the world. Yet there doesn't seem to have been any change in how aid was brought to these areas, or in making sure buildings (mobile homes!) are not built in these areas unless they can withstand these winds.
Will living in north Florida help? Just wondering, and agree, the facade of invulnerability can be lost easily and those who remember never regain that trust.
Moo!
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