Ignore everything I said about recover in my arriving in New Orleans entry. That was west of the city. I drove around a couple of blocks and then headed east on I-10. Two and a half months after the hurricane and it doesn't look like there is much improvement in the neighborhoods I saw.
How can families return home?
Even if they have their homes made liveable, how can families return home if trash litters virtually every street? If there is no where convenient to buy food and supplies? If your children can't go to school?
I didn't see any effort to repair schools, grocery stores, or gasoline stations in the neighborhoods off Canal Street. The only real sign of activity was at an intersection where a small group had set up a free medical clinic in the open air of a closed gasoline station parking lot on one corner and across the street there were business men selling merchandise out of their cars and trailers in another abandoned gasoline station. Two and a half months and the best America can do is an open air medical clinic in an abandoned gas station parking lot with a big white plastic sheet tied up to try to block the wind? We have over 40 million people in this country without healthcare, but thank goodness gay marriage has been blocked.
New Orleans and the Gulf Coast could easily happen to any of us via earthquakes, tornados, flooding, or disease. What will you do for your 5 minutes of political activity today? Who will you talk to? What will you say?
Leaving New Orleans for Pensacola
Posted November 16th, 2005 by Thom K in the USA
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