September 03, 2005
Katrina
It's hard to stress out about the little day-to-day things in life when our country is trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina. The photos, the stories, the television coverage. It's so difficult to imagine what the residents of New Orleans and parts of Mississippi are going through, their homes under water, their families trapped on rooftops.
Some sheriff's deputies from our county packed up some SUVs with supplies, borrowed a mobile home and headed south to help out in whatever way they can. They didn't want to wait days for the governmental paperwork that would tell them it's OK to go. They didn't want to let beauracy slow them down. They wanted to help the people. Godspeed.
Meanwhile, the rest of us feel helpless, watching the horrifying news reports of the floods, the fires, the snipers. I made a donation to Red Cross' hurricane efforts. For now, it's what I can do. What can you do?
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Posted by Laura at September 3, 2005 05:29 PM
Posted to Tara's Story
I think that's so great that your county's deputies are going down before the beaurocracy does its thing. I was just bemoaning just exactly that tonight with someone... that when people are dying from lack of food, water, medical aid, sanitary conditions, it is absolutely insane to hold things up for the paperwork. The paperwork can come afterwards. If not it won't be paperwork dealing with reimbursements for water and food, it will be paperwork dealing with numbers of bodies in the morgue. It is so sad and frustrating.
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Posted by: sally at September 7, 2005 09:20 AM