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August 30, 2005
Hurricane Katrina
Credit: Associated Press.
Disaster in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi
All day I've been struggling with how to fully express how affected I've been by seeing the photos and hearing the stories of the destruction in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. This is truly a disaster of immense porportions - that can't be emphasized enough. Countless people are dead, countless people have lost everything, and it will take months, if not years, to rebuild the gulf coast of those three states from Hurricane Katrina. I don't like to use other people's photos in my blog without permission but in this case I wanted to try to illustrate how bad the situation is in those three states. I can't imagine what the photographer who took this picture was thinking looking down on this and how he managed to keep on taking photos - that goes for all the photographers working in the area over the past few days. Hurricane Katrina didn't just damage a small area either - the amount of people and places that are effected by this is immense.
I would like to urge anyone who can to try to help the many people who are now homeless and left without even the basic necessities to live such as food, clothes and water. The Network for Good site contains links of organizations that are accepting donations to help the people and animals in the effected areas. As I said above this is not a situation that will be over in a couple of days - the effects of this will be felt for months and years to come in those areas. Consider also that with the flooding continuing in New Orleans and looting starting to break out in some areas things may get worse before they get better.
Posted by silverdsl at August 30, 2005 09:58 PM