[From the diaries by susanhu. Some good news — they’re alive — but amidst horror. Anderson Cooper is on Larry King now — he is deeply upset — duranta refers to him below.] I’m alive. I’m with my sister in Baton Rouge, and my parents, and two sisters. I have four sisters. One is trapped in New Orleans. Her name is Caroline. She is in Mid City with her boyfriend in their two story house, but belive me, they are the lucky ones. MORE BELOW:
They have ample food and water because of their resourcefulness, but they are surrounded by water and the smell of dead animals and possibly dead people, dead creatures in the water. I’m considering hiring a boat to get them out. Don’t believe the FEMA director, who turned down international aid on live TV. All is not well. In fact, it is absurd to consider the notion that there are enough resources in operation to deal with this disaster.
If ya’ll don’t recommend this diary to high heaven I’ll be disappointed. Because the people of New Orleans are sacrificing their lives to deliver you a message: It is time to stop relying on those who’s interests are not the people’s. It is time to stop relying on politicians.
I just heard Anderson Cooper take Mary Landrieu to task for taking her TV time for thanking other politicians. Her face barely cracked. We are talking lizard brains here. Then Anderson Cooper nearly lost it on live TV. He’s basically a good person.
Yea, I’m over-wrought. Not sleeping well. Too much wine tonight, just like the French/Irish family I was born into often indulged in.
I prayed to the virgin Mary today. I don’t do that often. The truth is, that this disaster is happening to warn everyone that until and unless we put people before profits, we are lost.
I hope ya’ll appreciate the sacrifice of the people of New Orleans to alert ya’ll to the fact that the structure of our society is not working. It is not working because there are many who feel their lives don’t matter. There are many who felt this way before Katrina.
It is time to look at the structure of our economy and decide that our so-called free market is not working. It is not working when the help is not getting where it needs to go.
No one paid attention to the homeless before this storm. Now that there is an entire city homeless, including myself, and ya’ll are finally listening.
I hope everyone is checking in to Stu Piddy who is writing for the forgotten, for the discarded.
I feel like BAton Rouge is ground zero for all that is reacting to New Orleans. Let us not forget the Gulf Coast. The same issue is happening there. The poor are stranded and are being ignored because our resources are stretched thin because of Iraq, and, they never cared anyway.
WE ARE THE ONES WHO CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IT WON’T BE EASY. BUT WE HAVE TO TRY. WE MUST BEGIN TO SHIFT THE RESOURCES OF THIS COUNTRY TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT THEIR LIVES DON’T MATTER.
Why do you think this is happening? Do you not think that everything is connected? My eyes are red and swollen but I move with my feelings. My feelings are telling me that the nation must listen and learn from what is happeing in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
We must begin to put people before profits or this nation won’t survive.
Help. Help each other.
Signing out: duranta from Baton Rouge.
