One Year Ago
Aug. 29th, 2006 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzilla. . . indifference, incompetence, and an unassailable sense of entitlement nearly killed one of the United States' most important cities.
Go read the step-by-step account of the disaster.
Go watch this musical howl. (And to the song which inspired it, and of the disaster which remade America.)
Go read.
New Orleans isn't optional; as long as the Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico, there will be a city near its mouth, and the narrow spit of land between Lake Pontchartrain and the river is the most sensible place for it. New Orleans is a national treasure in large part because it is a national resource. We can't act like it was a mistake to build there, and we can't turn away from the task of rebuilding.
And we can't let the people who tried to kill it get away clean.
Go read the step-by-step account of the disaster.
Go watch this musical howl. (And to the song which inspired it, and of the disaster which remade America.)
Go read.
New Orleans isn't optional; as long as the Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico, there will be a city near its mouth, and the narrow spit of land between Lake Pontchartrain and the river is the most sensible place for it. New Orleans is a national treasure in large part because it is a national resource. We can't act like it was a mistake to build there, and we can't turn away from the task of rebuilding.
And we can't let the people who tried to kill it get away clean.
