Sunshine (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sollite) wrote,@ 2005-09-02 20:57:00 |
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Public Service Announcement
Alobar is with a good group in a parking garage near the convention center. 11 people, of which two are teens , one a child, & one street performer (the only person Alobar knows in the group & the one who invited him in)
They are keeping their heads.
They've looted a little water & food.
Cops are not letting people out of the area once they enter.
It's effectively a concentration camp.
Violence is minimal-- most people are pulling together & helping each other
He's had a little water & one MRE.
He has no way to care for his leg
His group has a sanitation bucket & is keeping the parking garage swept clean.
People are going around offering water & food they loot to other survivors with mantras of "may you never thirst" & "fear is the mind killer".
I read this on katrinacane. I had been watching the news all day, all week, but when I got to this last line, my heart finally burst under the strain of its breaking.
Via the pseudo-freedom of credit cards, I will be in Houston tomorrow at 3pm. I will be volunteering as much as I can at the Astrodome or wherever else they say I should go until I leave Tues. morning to come back to the kind of ordinary life that many, many people don't have anymore. If anyone feels inclined to join me or hang out for a meal or so, give me, mom, or Ernie a ring.
Alobar is with a good group in a parking garage near the convention center. 11 people, of which two are teens , one a child, & one street performer (the only person Alobar knows in the group & the one who invited him in)
They are keeping their heads.
They've looted a little water & food.
Cops are not letting people out of the area once they enter.
It's effectively a concentration camp.
Violence is minimal-- most people are pulling together & helping each other
He's had a little water & one MRE.
He has no way to care for his leg
His group has a sanitation bucket & is keeping the parking garage swept clean.
People are going around offering water & food they loot to other survivors with mantras of "may you never thirst" & "fear is the mind killer".
I read this on katrinacane. I had been watching the news all day, all week, but when I got to this last line, my heart finally burst under the strain of its breaking.
Via the pseudo-freedom of credit cards, I will be in Houston tomorrow at 3pm. I will be volunteering as much as I can at the Astrodome or wherever else they say I should go until I leave Tues. morning to come back to the kind of ordinary life that many, many people don't have anymore. If anyone feels inclined to join me or hang out for a meal or so, give me, mom, or Ernie a ring.
