Wednesday, August 31, 2005

It's downtown Baghdad

My condolences goes out to all of those who have lost a life in the devastation that was Hurricane Katrina. Being form SC, I can truly empathize with what it feel slike to be on the verge of losing everything - even when it's not much. I can remember the preparation in advance of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 as if it were yesterday. I also remember the looting that took place then, as itstill appears to somethign that just it.

Disbelief is the word that comes to mind. On Monday, I stood at the edge of the large pit of what was formerly the World Trade Center complex in NYC. I was in a a state of disbelief that I had been on top of the Observation Deck at one point in my life - the observation that no longer exists. Disbelief that I-10 - the same I-10 that I traveled on many times in my high school days on trips between the East Coast an San Antonio - was broken into two. There is an entire section of a fuqing interstate missing. I drove over that shT, son. WTF?!

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