Reply #51: Pretty impressive.

[SheilaT]

Edited because I stupidly called the Superdome the Astrodome. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

A few random thoughts.

First of all, with all due respect, praying won't matter. The invisible sky god won't give a flying fuck if you worship or not. What matter is cold, hard fact.

This is a dangerous hurricane. Shit happens. Hurricanes happens. It was inevitable that some day New Orleans would be directly in the path of a deadly destructive hurricane. The population of this country, especially in the coastal areas, has grown at a rapid rate over the last fifty years. I've been reading since at least the mid-1970's that deadly hurricanes somewhere are going to happen, and that the problem with the influx of new residents along the coasts is that most of them have no experience with serious hurricanes. At least there has been a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, and an honest effort is being made to shelter those who cannot leave.

Anyone else noticing that the predominant skin color of those going to the Superdome says a lot about this country?

There's also a pornography of disaster going on here. Those of us safely away from it can watch, safe in our living rooms, glad we're not there, and secretly enjoying the destruction.