I heard two stories on the radio today about NO:
the first story summarized the federal commission's report (not final yet) regarding the failure of the government at all levels to adequately respond to K - they evidently list 90+ key mistakes made by the head of homeland security, the head of fema, the governor, the mayor, etc......
the second story addressed the 200+ bodies that remain unclaimed and/or unidentified since K and are being stored in large regrigerated trucks south of baton rouge. the NO director of the health department talked about the need to have a mausoleum - and not discrete burials in wooden caskets - so that the bodies could have rest and yet still be reclaimed by family down the road. And so NO could begin recovery.
Oh - there was a third story - about the stoplights and how many months and how much money it was going to take to get all the stoplights working again...
but it's obvious recovery is already beginning - perhaps not according to the linear time tables of government, but according to the decentralized will of people who are new orleans - the rhizome of recovery - nonlinear, with deep roots and many exits and entrances. hurray for the 24/7. a blossom.
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the first story summarized the federal commission's report (not final yet) regarding the failure of the government at all levels to adequately respond to K - they evidently list 90+ key mistakes made by the head of homeland security, the head of fema, the governor, the mayor, etc......
the second story addressed the 200+ bodies that remain unclaimed and/or unidentified since K and are being stored in large regrigerated trucks south of baton rouge. the NO director of the health department talked about the need to have a mausoleum - and not discrete burials in wooden caskets - so that the bodies could have rest and yet still be reclaimed by family down the road. And so NO could begin recovery.
Oh - there was a third story - about the stoplights and how many months and how much money it was going to take to get all the stoplights working again...
but it's obvious recovery is already beginning - perhaps not according to the linear time tables of government, but according to the decentralized will of people who are new orleans - the rhizome of recovery - nonlinear, with deep roots and many exits and entrances. hurray for the 24/7. a blossom.
- anonymous 2-14-2006 5:29 am