Catching up on Katrina

[triadruid]

French Quarter Holdouts Create 'Tribes'
By ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press Writer
Sun Sep 4, 7:59 PM ET

NEW ORLEANS - In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor. As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to protect property. In a bar, a bartender put near-perfect stitches into the torn ear of a robbery victim.

While mold and contagion grew in the muck that engulfed most of the city, something else sprouted in this most decadent of American neighborhoods — humanity.

"Some people became animals," Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday morning as he sipped a hot beer in Johnny White's Sports Bar on Bourbon Street. "We became more civilized."

Further west, Barbara Bush had good news for those who have been forced from their homes and had their lives uprooted: "...so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them"

Comments

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

There was also a story today about a mom who put her kids on a rescue helicopter and sent them to safety when there wasn't room for her. They went to Baton Rouge; she went to San Antonio. They were reunited this afternoon.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Somebody, quick, sew that woman's lips together! For the love of all that is good and pure, please shut her mouth!

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I hope to give you live reports from Baton Rouge in the coming days... yeah for experience... yeah... (Damn online stuff... you can't *hear* the sarcasm)

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Sure we can.

Aha!

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

So *that* is the side of the family tree that da shrub got the majority of his IQ and political savvy from.

That explains some thangs.

*facepalm*