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This has all been so overwhelming.
A week ago I was just getting around to thinking about the conference I was going to attend in New Orleans starting 9/12. I got out the book I bought after my last visit in 2000 so I could remind myself about some of the places I wanted to revisit and others I'd missed the first time.
Tuesday morning I knew that wasn't going to happen. And I've gone from feeling whiny because I'm going to miss the trip to horrified at the destruction. NO is such a special place but it's also old and fragile and I don't know if it will recover from this. Or how much of the spirit of the city will survive.
Can you even imagine what it must be like to be trapped there? I can't even think about it.
There's been no leadership anywhere in this country to handle this situation. Cutting short your vacation to show you're concerned is not leadership, George. You should have been out there yelling at your people to get things done from the first day. You've built up a lovely buracracy there with the Department of Homeland Paranoia but all they know how to do is choose a threat-level color scheme.
Okay, I'm done. I've been sick for more than a week and every time the cold medicine wears off there's more bad news to absorb. I'm a little cranky.
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