See this post from another dailykos thread on Hurricane Katrina:

"Best wishes.

I can't imagine what tragic lack of education could lead people to believe they can survive the direct path of the storm, but I hope they come to their senses before Katrina arrives.

I fear for the people who will simply get no warning or have no means to act upon it. The homeless, the elderly (who may not have any close friends or relatives and access to warnings), the poor and disadvantaged.

We here that are concerned with politics are used to talking about events of tremendous importance to human life - from nuclear proliferation, to terrorism, to globalisation and so on. But occasionally, now and again we're reminded that we're ultimately at the whim of nature and for all our brute power and civilisation, we can do little but submit to its mercy. It reminds us that we're mortal, in a very stark way.

Let this be an opportunity for the best side of humanity to come through: cooperation, self-sacrifice and neighbourly spirit.

There will be a lot of heroes made in New Orleans the next few days, as people risk their lives to save others. There will also be a lot of sad losses, lots of people who wont make it. It's in situations like these that life is at both its most harrowing, and its greatest.

Good luck to you all"...

by Mephistopheles on Sun Aug 28th, 2005 at 13:21:59 PDT

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