« Katrina update | Main | Heard in today's news » Katrina update #2boing boing has been publishing a lot of useful info about Katrina. Meanwhile New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered police to stop rescue operations so they can protect private property from looters. That doesn't strike me as the right priority, but looters were evidently armed and potentially violent. George Bush was on the scene, taking a break from his long vacation for a flyover in Air Force One. Bush released some of the emergency oil reserves and the EPA announced a temporary waiver of pollution standards covering gasoline and diesel fuels, ostensibly to ramp up production. jon posted this at 12:37 AM |
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Personally (in a backseat disaster relief cordinator kind of way) I think maybe the Hyatt which is right next to the Astrodom (or astrodoom?)could have invited some of the injured/sick/pregnant inside for care, no? Or has it? I checked the website and it there was no mention of aide stations.
I'm not going to go as far as to say private propery is meaningless in times of disaster, but aren't all of these businesses just going to junk all their stuff and get insurance/disaster relief money anyway? I mean it. I'm asking. So who cares if someone flops who's not paying the hotel; and that TV: 1. isn't going very far, 2. is going to be written off/junked and 3. if more people (see:poor)die because the folks at the Hyatt (and other properties) don't want the great unwashed to soil their(damp)cushions, the anger is going to build, no?
It ain't right.
n
Posted by: nix | September 1, 2005 3:33 PM