New Orleans
Sep. 2nd, 2005 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnI haven't seen this link about the disaster posted anywhere this side of the Atlantic yet, so thought I would share it here :
http://www.livejournal.com/users/wicked_wish/582898.html
It is like a John Wyndham novel.
Personally I find it hard to register disasters: it always seems to take a day or so for them to really dawn on me. For some reason this one seemed utterly terrible right from the start, even before the really bad news stories started coming out. I think it's the domestic level of the stories: Lynmouth or Boscastle scaled unimaginably huge. I relate to flooding on a level that I can't really grasp manmade disaster - is it just me?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/wicked_wish/582898.html
It is like a John Wyndham novel.
Personally I find it hard to register disasters: it always seems to take a day or so for them to really dawn on me. For some reason this one seemed utterly terrible right from the start, even before the really bad news stories started coming out. I think it's the domestic level of the stories: Lynmouth or Boscastle scaled unimaginably huge. I relate to flooding on a level that I can't really grasp manmade disaster - is it just me?
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Date: 2005-09-02 11:46 am (UTC)The staff of a data centre are sitting in a skyscraper in the middle of the city, trying to keep communications open for the authorities and sending out pleas for diesel for their generators.
In one post the manager asks for people who have offices in the same building whether he can borrow any useful things they might have in their desks - clothes, first aid kits, food, hand sanitisers, ammunition...
John Wyndham and The Stand were my first thoughts.