Mr. Darwin, you have a call on line one.

[geekchick]

Today is Sweetmorn, day 22 in the season of Bureaucracy, 3271.



Patrick Lampano, left and Blair Quintana witness first-hand Katrina's hurricane-force winds in the French Quarter in New Orleans.

Comments

[macropixi.livejournal.com]

see that looks like something I would be inclined to do myself... but then I'm a weather freak.

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Hmm, why do I want to caption this.

"Hey, dude, where are the chicks we can give beads to?"

"I don't know, man, but hopefully some of 'em will walk out soon. You still got some of that primo stuff?

"Uhhhh-huuuhuhh. It blew away."

[geekchick]

At least they know where their towels are.

[plaidsheep.livejournal.com]

"hey butthead! I thought you said we could fly with these suits on"

"shutup beavis. I am going to kick your ass"

"this sucks!! I'm getting glass in my eyes. We're gonna die!!"

"dumbass. I'm going to fly. I'm going to fly over the city and rescue chicks and then I'm gonna score"

"AAAAAAAAGH!!"

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

The brightly-colored (if not actually bright) one should be easy to see from the rescue chopper... or at least his towel will be. If he has the foresight to fasten it tightly enough, maybe his body *will* eventually be found?

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I wonder if these two are still alive. Jeez.

[elorie.livejournal.com]

I am starting to get really pissed off about this.

Lots of people, like my friend scyllacat, are STUCK in NO because they don't have cars...and by the time the mayor gave the order to evacuate, ALL of the train and bus stations were closed down and there were no rental cars to be found. Notwithstanding that some people just don't have the fucking gas money.

Yet all the news stories imply that people are "choosing" to stay.

There IS no evacuation plan for people who don't have their own vehicles. The Superdome IS the plan. This is classism in action, people....if you don't have enough money to have a car, or don't drive for whatever reason, you can just die.

Check out scyllacat's last post, and talk about fucking Darwin.

[geekchick]

First thing: I hope your friend is okay, I really do.

As to these particular guys, who are the ones I was referring to specifically: I could be wrong, but it seems highly unlikely to me that these two boys had no other option available but to wander around outside in the middle of a damn hurricane rather than taking shelter someplace. I wasn't talking about people who couldn't get out of the city for whatever reason and are taking all reasonable precautions that they can to make sure they make it through the storm intact rather than actively putting themselves in harm's way for the hell of it as these two guys certainly look to be doing.

And yeah, there are people staying put because they choose to, but I'm sure it's not nearly in the numbers that the news stories are making it seem.