Katrina didn't change my attitudes about disasters. Where I live in California, we're waiting for the Big Earthquake to destroy life as we know it. There's water and food and medical supplies and emergency toileting stuff and camping gear and batteries, all stored in our shed. My husband knows, and I know, and this year we train our eldest kid how to: shut off the gas, shut off the water lines, and secure the electricity to our home, in an emergency.
Out here on the west coast, gas prices were up around $3 a gallon before the hurricane. They've actually dropped in the weeks since then. Gas is expensive, but we're used to it.
In a few months, Katrina will not be forgotten, but it will be background noise, in the same way the for most people the War in Iraq is now background noise. Unless, of course, Rita is followed by Hurricane Tammy wiping out Miami, and then Hurricane Wilma brings devastation to the Carolinas. There are still six weeks in the hurricane season, after all. September is the worst month for hurricanes, historically.
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Date: 2005-09-23 04:31 am (UTC)Out here on the west coast, gas prices were up around $3 a gallon before the hurricane. They've actually dropped in the weeks since then. Gas is expensive, but we're used to it.
In a few months, Katrina will not be forgotten, but it will be background noise, in the same way the for most people the War in Iraq is now background noise. Unless, of course, Rita is followed by Hurricane Tammy wiping out Miami, and then Hurricane Wilma brings devastation to the Carolinas. There are still six weeks in the hurricane season, after all. September is the worst month for hurricanes, historically.