Lord Lionheart

See me blog, maybe that will help you get it.
As I said I agree but it is the anniversary, I am getting tired of the paranoia since 911. New Orleans proves that the people at the top either don't care, haven't got a clue or both. These lame brains will still be defenseless for the next terror attack or if ' The Big One' ever hits CA etc. etc. It's all about politics, control and money.

cindyabs

Saw your blog and it was good. There is nothing wrong with pausing and reflecting-doesn't mean spiralling into depression, or paranoia or anything, just a brief moment when you think of someone else and how your life was touched by them even in a mundane way.

paddingtongreen

To somebody whose house, neighbourhood, town is wiped out, it is as bad as a tsunami. Using the approach that only events that equal "the tsunami" qualify for the comparison, you have to have a different name for the lesser, previous, tsunamis.

We should remember the past for it's lessons, we learn from experience.

Perhaps instead of mourning the deaths of people killed in the past we should celebrate their lives. Right off, I don't know how to do this for people I don't know, but people who use the other side of their brains can figure it out, I'm sure.

Lord Lionheart

Mundane way? So you have seen me play football then?

cindyabs

Aw bless, meant as normal not as a dig,

Winterwords

No, the difference in my mind is that the tsunami near Phuket effected a poor country & killed nearlly quarter of a million *without warning*.

America is the richest nation & only super power, it had warning regarding Katrina & yet action wasn't taken. I'm sure the States could've afforded to lay on the school buses & other means of transport for those who had no other means to evacuate.

(Sorry to continue off topic).

cindyabs

I had read that the school buses were part of the evacuation plan they had in place but a photo showed a good many underwater.

Winterwords

Yeah, I believe they were in a plan for evacuation as well - too bad they didn't actually seem to execute any form of plan to evacuate people (I think I saw the photo you refer to - many many school buses all parked up & flooded).

Triumphrob

A spokesperson the 60's band "The Animals" has today made a public apology saying they were mistaken and there isn't a house in New Orleans
after all