ULYSSES and New Orleans
I haven't been reading my daily quota for a few days. Been watching the news about Hurricane Katrina.
I was one of the early volunteer relief workers on the ground in Aceh after the tsunami, and the destruction that I see on TV rivals what I saw first hand there in Aceh.
The Spanish Red Cross got a water-making station up and running in Meulaboh, Aceh, within 36 hours of the completely *unexpected* tsunami. Hurricane Katrina provided days of advance warning.
It's the nature of bureaucracy to be bipartisanly incompetent, I know, but good Lord, the present US bureaucracy seems to have been non compos mentis.
I was one of the early volunteer relief workers on the ground in Aceh after the tsunami, and the destruction that I see on TV rivals what I saw first hand there in Aceh.
The Spanish Red Cross got a water-making station up and running in Meulaboh, Aceh, within 36 hours of the completely *unexpected* tsunami. Hurricane Katrina provided days of advance warning.
It's the nature of bureaucracy to be bipartisanly incompetent, I know, but good Lord, the present US bureaucracy seems to have been non compos mentis.
posted by Richard Lewis at 11:02 AM
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Well said, Richard.
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