bubosquared | (no subject)

I've not said anything about the Katrina situation, because everyone else has already been saying it better than I could, but I think you should all read this and this, because this specific aspect of the whole thing is making me more sick than anything. It's not even just the fact that tens of thousands of people were left behind to die in the flood because they have no cars or other means to leave, and that "mandatory evacuation" apparently does not mean actually providing buses and trains for people to actually, you know, evactuate. No, let's add insult to injury and pretend that the people who stayed behind did so because they're stupid and stubborn and chose to, for whatever reason, and then when they go and take food from the stores, food that will go bad by the time the waters subside, let's call it looting and threaten to arrest them for it!

I really hate people sometimes.

(Secret message to the Belgians on my friendslist: am I the only one who keeps flashing back to Oosterschelde, Windkracht 10?)

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Dying to know what Oosterschelde, Windkracht 10 is... Is that an address?

Heh, no.

Oosterschelde = a river/mouth (... I THINK that's the correct term, where a river joins the sea?) in the Netherlands, "windkracht 10" = "gale force 10" (... I think?). Oosterschelde, Windkracht 10 is the title of a well-known/almost classic Dutch YA book about the big storm tide that flooded a large part of the Netherlands in the Fifties, the one that prompted the development of the Delta Plan.