I can not watch Katrina anniversary coverage

[uppityperson]

I wonder if the man whose friend was found with life jacket in place, drowned in St Bernard Parish after it flooded ever found peace.

I wonder if the young couple whose car had blown its engine 3 weeks after Katrina hit managed to get out of town, find jobs, a place to live, family, friends.

I wonder if the dentist who donated his land and cabins for clean up crew ever managed to get his business going again.

I wonder if the woman whose baby fell out of her arms when the levee broke has gotten a good night's sleep.

I wonder if the man with carbon monoxide poisoning from his generator suffered any long lasting effects.

I wonder if the child with the swollen face from a tooth abscess had the infection cleared up by the antibiotics a mobile clinic gave him.

I wonder if the families of the elderly drowned in their beds in their nursing home have forgiven themselves.

I wonder if the secretary at Bill Gates Foundation remembers my calling her, sobbing on the phone, asking him to buy a helicopter, fly down and drop water for people at the Convention Center.

I wonder how the friends I made from Katrina, both here and in Real Life are doing.

I wonder how the man sitting on the front steps of his parents non-existent house is doing.

I wonder about the families of friends who died in Katrina, in the flooding, in the aftermath, in the clean up.

I have an emergency kit in the back of my car, could survive a couple weeks if careful. I have enough food/water at home to survive longer. I've bought kits for varied family members who don't have such a thing. It won't be enough. I know my neighbors, have friends and family all over, am willing to work together if/when an emergency happens where I am.

So much I wonder, so much I advise others. Watch for me because I can not.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. You know I did watch

I spent those days and nights on the phone... telling people how to get teams in, people we needed badly. My mind was on full disaster mode and I was going over maps I cobbled together, shit like that.

So today I finally managed to sit down... and those details that my mind did not register while dong that shit... knowing teams were needed... today they entered the mind... I got to cry... I guess that was a good thing.

I was still screaming at the TV, knowing full well that two and a half ton trucks SHOULD have been able to enter the zone, and choppers should have been able to land. So the anger was even deeper

Yes, George, may you burn in hell, or better yet, become the devil's toy, in the deepest hole of hell. It is amazing how memories change though, and become sharp shards though.

[uppityperson]

10. Thanks for your work nadin, very frustrating trying to get stuff/people in, people out

bush and brownie were quite a couple. Gutting FEMA and then not particularly caring about many.

[Suich]

2. Jean...

:hug:

[uppityperson]

3. and to you and yours

[Lisa0825]

4. I can't either....

I couldn't even read your whole post... but I read enough to understand that I feel the same.

:hug:

[pitohui]

5. yeah i don't watch either

we have an instant society, everything is processed and now it's a media event/tourist attraction only five years later

surely it took more than five years for dachau or the anne frank house to become tourist attractions

could i survive a couple weeks if careful, no prob not, i make these kits up then go crazy and eat all the food, it changes your head somehow i think

do the best you can and go on, we are not obligated to watch 24/7 news events to sell advertising when watching this coverage harms us

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I've been to Auschwitz, and

I would not call that a tourist attraction.

It is an eerie, scary place... where every step that you take... well it feels like you are on dead's ground.

I suspect there are areas in NOLA that have that feeling.

[uppityperson]

8. best to you and yours there

[G_j]

6. so well said.. ..nt

[DuckBurp]

9. We need to see those images and remember just how bad it was.

Only then can we feel compelled to not let it happen again.

[Desertrose]

11. The ones who really need to see them, won't watch or remember...

for the rest of us...we can't forget those images of suffering. Ever.