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Shaking just a little bit
Apr. 19th, 2006 11:59 pmHello folks, long time no see. I guess it could be said that being busy is a good thing, but hopefully with Tax Season ending things will calm down a bit. Still, even in a weekend without softball, we can still manage to see friends, like Howard, Forest and Brian and Mikel (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
soonercubntx) who has recently moved into the area. We took Joey and Mikel's dog Aspen out to Lee Park on Easter Sunday and found that it was just too hot for anyone to be out. !01 degrees in April is just a little too much. luckily it's raining tonight, and that should cool things down.
So today is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, one of the disasters I've been near, hearing the boom as I was with members of my fraternity in Norman, Oklahoma that day. We saw the bombed out building, a few hours after it happened, and really, at that time there wasn't much you could do.
I've been reading and studying up a lot lately about the Great San Francisco Quake and fires, who's anniversary was on Tuesday. It's of interest to me as it was something you've always heard about, but never to any level of detail. Now with the centennial event, there are many books and even a National Geographic special about the event. Of course it's also interesting to me as I stood on the streets (of San Francisco) last year, and now I'm reading about their destruction many years past, block by block.
Also interesting are the parallels between the Great Quake and hurricane Katrina, with the loss of life that was misquoted often to keep investors interested in rebuilding, the government being pretty much powerless under incompetent leadership, the misuse of the military in the disaster situation, and the displacement of a whole city's residents.
The Great Quake was a larger disaster than any other American city had ever known, except for perhaps Galveston, Texas, which was pretty much washed off the map in 1900. Now in 2005, we found ourselves just as ill prepared, a government that would rather take the money and run, as it's full of corruption and inefficiency (and thats city, state and federal), and the fact that there's many areas that will be uninhabitable for the next few years. the question is, will the be able to rebuild New Orleans like they did San Francisco, arguably about the same sized-city before the disaster. Time will tell.
I think it's too late for popcorn.
soonercubntx) who has recently moved into the area. We took Joey and Mikel's dog Aspen out to Lee Park on Easter Sunday and found that it was just too hot for anyone to be out. !01 degrees in April is just a little too much. luckily it's raining tonight, and that should cool things down.So today is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, one of the disasters I've been near, hearing the boom as I was with members of my fraternity in Norman, Oklahoma that day. We saw the bombed out building, a few hours after it happened, and really, at that time there wasn't much you could do.
I've been reading and studying up a lot lately about the Great San Francisco Quake and fires, who's anniversary was on Tuesday. It's of interest to me as it was something you've always heard about, but never to any level of detail. Now with the centennial event, there are many books and even a National Geographic special about the event. Of course it's also interesting to me as I stood on the streets (of San Francisco) last year, and now I'm reading about their destruction many years past, block by block.
Also interesting are the parallels between the Great Quake and hurricane Katrina, with the loss of life that was misquoted often to keep investors interested in rebuilding, the government being pretty much powerless under incompetent leadership, the misuse of the military in the disaster situation, and the displacement of a whole city's residents.
The Great Quake was a larger disaster than any other American city had ever known, except for perhaps Galveston, Texas, which was pretty much washed off the map in 1900. Now in 2005, we found ourselves just as ill prepared, a government that would rather take the money and run, as it's full of corruption and inefficiency (and thats city, state and federal), and the fact that there's many areas that will be uninhabitable for the next few years. the question is, will the be able to rebuild New Orleans like they did San Francisco, arguably about the same sized-city before the disaster. Time will tell.
I think it's too late for popcorn.
