New Orleans
Wow, never has the old adage that we are only 48hrs from anarchy been more succinctly demonstrated. Crazy stuff and completely bizarre that the most powerful country on earth is shown to have such feet of clay. Hopefully they are now getting things moving to get immediate aid on but I doubt they have a clue what to do in the long term for all those folks with no shelter or jobs etc.
In some ways I have to think that the Tsunami showed places like Indonesia were almost better equipped to cope with the destruction of all the modern technology. If you have everything removed from a low base you don't have far to fall, but the West even in the poorest areas is a society used to getting what it needs on tap and has lost the ability to live without it.
In some ways I have to think that the Tsunami showed places like Indonesia were almost better equipped to cope with the destruction of all the modern technology. If you have everything removed from a low base you don't have far to fall, but the West even in the poorest areas is a society used to getting what it needs on tap and has lost the ability to live without it.
posted by Desert_Weasel at 10:04 am
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In the case of NO, obviously something went wrong with evacuation (or rather lack thereof) of the massive amount of people left there. Perhaps many of them didn't have the means by which to get out (like a car) but then government should have made sure they could go if they wanted to. I've experienced mass-evacuations of people before hurricanes have hit in the US, and it can be done. Many left before Katrina hit but not enough. That's something that will have to be looked at.
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