AND WE FOUGHT THE BLOODY CHAOS IN THE TOWN OF NEW ORLEANSA few more thoughts, because in the middle of the night when you don't have to work the next day, they come to you (i.e. me):
Merely calling this whole crisis "Hurricane Katrina" seems inadequate. Wikipedia is calling it the Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, and that's a start, but that certainly isn't the whole picture.
- This is certainly a rare occasion where the hyperbole of Matt Drudge and the obsession of cable news were more prescient than the rest of the country in recognizing the short-term, widespread, imminent direction of the national discussion.
- One way to understand how general understanding of Hurricane Katrina's significance evolved is the comprehensively cached history of Katrina pages (re: the storm itself) at Wikipedia. Start with the first few posts and jump forward into time. Tell me if the very first entry isn't a bit eerily mundane.
- While I'm digging, I should add, the history of the "Effect" page is pretty interesting, too.
- It is both telling and understandable that the official Superdome website has been down since yesterday.
- And here's one from out-of-the-blue: If you have Rilo Kiley's "The Execution of All Things" handy, put it on. Do the lyrics and the themes therein take on a new significance when you keep post-Katrina life in mind? It starts with "the disappearing ground" in the opening lyrics and continues on from there.
posted by WWB at 2:47 AM |
