We Interrupt This Program
Excuse me, while I open a space in the political discussion to point out something beyond the primaries on Tuesday - a powerful series of thunderstorms ripped through the Mid-South with tornadoes that killed at least 54 people and injured hundreds. They have been promised help by George W. Bush, which I can tell you as someone who lives in an area struck by hurricane Ivan in 2004 and knows what the Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas Gulf Coast still looks like after Katrina and Rita in 2005, is not going to happen any time soon.
With so many states involved, many of the mutual assistance agreements, with sharing of manpower and resources, is overwhelmed. One of the tornadoes stayed on the ground to plow a 25 mile long ditch in Tennessee. People are hurting, and it would be in the best traditions of liberals, Democrats, and “hippies” to help them out.
Monkeyfister live-blogged the storms, and has the links for direct assistance. A lot of our neighbors in the Mid-South became instantly homeless, jobless, and foodless. It would be a good thing to do for your karma to put aside politics for a short time and walk the walk. Everyone knows that we can talk the talk.
February 7th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Thanks for reminding us that there are other things going on.
February 7th, 2008 at 11:15 am
The Media hasn’t been a lot of help telling people how bad this really is. It’s like a targeted bombing campaign, and the places that were hit, really took a beating.
Living on the Gulf Coast I really do know what it’s like to get crushed like this and then put in the days with the chain saws to cut your way out, having to revert to axes when you run out of gas. Not knowing when you can get water out of a tap, and when that water won’t make you sick.
If you wait for the Feds you can die in line.