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Katrina communications update

9/5/2005scaredpoet

As of yesterday, SMS messaging appears to be finally emerging as a reliable communication medium between the disaster-stricken areas in Louisiana and Mississippi, and the rest of the world, despite the previous blackout. Voice calls into the area are still restricted, but some people in the disaster area are reporting success making outbound calls.

Also, various wireless carriers that serve the region are offering free voice calls in their retail stores that are capable of conducting business. This service is free to everyone: you do not need to be a wireless subscriber to visit the stores and make calls as needed. Verizon Wireless is also offering a free phone recharge service to its customers.

As I know the people who NEED to know this probably won’t have a means to view this information, please do the favor of passing this information along to any loved ones who you contact (or who contact you) in the stricken area, so that they can in turn send word to those in need of a communication lifeline.

And now we’re REALLY screwed.

9/4/2005scaredpoet

Because Bush gets two.

It’s nice to know where our priorities are.

9/2/2005scaredpoet

CNN wants you to know how many Wal-Marts were closed due to Hurricance Katrina.

Can I get a WHO CARES?!

A.F.K

9/2/2005scaredpoet

No one uses the phone anymore.
The tracks are wrecked and the odometer’s ticking.
The edge is pushed and the lines are melting.
Too scared to look at what I hear outside.
Release,Protect. Embrace, Engulf.
Remember the summer.
Protect. Enslave. In love.
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My optimism for the human condition is all but gone.

9/1/2005scaredpoet

Okay.

I understand that these people are desperate.

I understand that these people are frustrated, and stuck in horrid, squallid conditions.

I understand the survival instinct is kicking in. I can even condone looting IF it’s for the absolute necessities, like drinkable water, food and medicine.

I know for a fact that if I were in those conditions, I would get pretty hysterical, myself.

But shooting at the people who are trying to get you the hell out?!

Threatening rescuers’ lives, when they’re trying to save yours?!

Do they understand that even though they’re angry that evacuations aren’t going fast enough, this type of behavior is only to delay things further?

A man shooting his own sister fatally in the head, over a bag of ice?

People, WTF?!?!

We’ve gone beyond understandable panic to incomprehensible madness. It’s like people WANT to die, even when faced with the prospect of eventual rescue. It’s the only way I can explain why anyone would want to threaten the very people trying to save them, kill their own family members, and have no care at all for the eventual consequences they may face, IF they haven’t ruined their own chances of getting out.