Monday, August 29, 2005
Category Four
A news report last night showed two obviously affluent couples, from New Orleans, in a wood paneled restaurant, expensive earrings dangling from the women's ears, lamenting their evacuee status. I forget exactly where they were, but it was in Mississippi. Katrina was going to The Big Easy. But at the same moment, on New Orleans close radar, Katrina had shifted slightly. headed due north, the west wall of the eye beginning to soften. I watched that radar until dawn. Those well dressed people enjoying their dinner might have fled in the wrong direction. I wonder if they were surprised on Monday morning. The wind & the storm surge of 30 feet were going to overwhelm Gulfport, Biloxi, Harrison County, destroying both grand antebellum houses & humble doublewides. In New Orleans, the mostly poorer north section of the city near Lake Pontchartrain was devastated, not the old French Quarter. But someday the water will rise higher than the river levees.
WLOX TV, ABC affiliate, Biloxi/Gulfport
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
WLOX TV, ABC affiliate, Biloxi/Gulfport
