Dr. Rusty Shackleford from the Jawa Report, , went down to the Gulf area to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. He remarks on the extent of the damage, which none of the LMSM spent much time describing in the middle of their exhibitionistic excitement over the victims trapped in New Orleans. From Report from Hurricane Zone: The Unavoidable Tragedy:
The biggest bullshit coming from partisans on the Left, trying to blame the federal government, and partisans on the Right, trying to blame local governments, is that the response was somehow too slow. Let me briefly explain.
Nearly a hundred miles inland I began to see downed trees. By the time we approached about the sixty mile mark from the coast (we were driving from Jackson, Mississipi, towards the coast--so, say 20 miles outside of Hattiesburg) it became worse. Much worse.
Downed trees lined the road. I presume that the majority of them were blown across the highway during the hurricane. They had been roughly cut and then dragged to the side of the road, . Hundreds of them. No, thousands of them.
Each tree had to be moved just to let traffic flow. Every. Single. One. For mile upon mile upon mile. For hundreds of miles. In every direction. This takes time.
And as lanes were cleared and highways opened, trucks and supplies had to move into the zone at the same time as hundreds of thousands of people were trying to move out.
If getting people out of the zone of destruction was a logistical nightmare, getting relief in was an equally daunting task.
Now imagine that same task, and add on severe flooding. Also, you don't know how deep the water is between point A and point B. Difficult under any circumstances, nearly impossible when such a large area was affected.
Some natural disasters are so overpowering that our efforts to fend off their effects are simply inconsequential. The Utopian fantasy of an all powerful, maternal nurturing government that will watch out for us and make everything all right, is just that: a fantasy. Anyone who lives their life as if their fantasies are reality is worse than a fool; in anything approaching a state of nature, they are likely to be dead fools.
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