Gas Prices
Gas prices in Atlanta, Georgia are over $5.50. It'll hit us too, so fill up your tanks while you can.
posted by Eric @ 5:11 PM
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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oh wow! Too bad I can't drive, **wink wink**
but yeah, the devastation is horrendous there, I do feel really bad, I mean I thought it was just another hurricane and it will go away but this has to be like the most devastating hurricane that hit the us for quite a while, I heard bush paying some money to the oil companies to keep the prices at average and not rising too much. Hopefully this will push enviromentally car manufacturing and the may inspire scientists to work harder on finding ways to change the weather
Yeah, the hurricane was bad... but a lot of people have to live in bad conditions all the time. I mean, the last time a hurricane hit Hait, last year, it killed 3,000 people, and barely made the news until it neared the U.S. a little more.
And nobody seems to have noticed at all the huge stampede that killed over a thousand in a Shi'ite religious holiday in Iraq. A crowd was mortared, and rumors spread that there was a suicide bomber, and everyone panicked.
And even that doens't compare to the 20,000 people every day who die from malnutrition, malaria, AIDs - poverty. I don't get why the U.S. citizens are valued so much higher than everyone elses. Sure, we live in the U.S., so it affects us a little more, but for the past five days, the news has been dominated by Katrina, even as worse things happen all over the world.
We're just lucky we CAN weather a hurricane like this and come out still standing. Most of the regions hit by the tsunami are still completely devestated. You can bet that eight months from now, there won't still be debris in the French Quarter. We'll be able to get New Orleans and the rest of the area back to a semblence of normality in no time.
The last time the US has been devastated by a national disaster was in 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, which was blamed for anywhere from about 500 to 6,000 deaths. Katrina would also be the nation's deadliest hurricane since 1900, when a storm in Galveston, Texas, killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people.
The point is that this has been one of the worst disasters to ever happen in America for about 100 years and so yes this is a big deal, we helped out the tsunami victims. Each country has there own things to worry about, the hait incident was not part of the US and so really who in America is going to care?
Sure you are right, thousands of people die a day but it is not from one major incident, if 20,000 die a day all over the world and then 20,000 people die over in say England, who do you think people are going to care about. This is not something that happens everyday.
Now the victims are shooting at the helicopters who are trying to rescue them, hospitals have no power, no communication, no food and have had to move upstairs from looters. The devastation is not from the Hurricane directly but rather from this mass chaos. So far only 126 people have been confirmed dead and just to think how many more will die.
This incident will effect our economy and so much more that we can only hope this settles down.
Yeah. Cody seems to get it. It hasn't even begun yet. Humans always do more damage than nature does. The problem comes in where people have to steal and possibly kill just to get food and water.
Bad things happen when good people do nothing. The biggest mistake was in not shooting the first looters on sight. The next step will be armed citizen militias... better than chaos, but not much, and not for long. Social order is what allows us to survive - this is true even in 3rd world countries. When it collapses, evil thrives.
something cool I found while reading an update, the AP is releasing satellite images of New Orleans after the Hurricane: http://hosted.ap.org/specials/neworleanssatellite/index.html
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