2005 - 09-02-05

Think of it this way: Suppose you
are an "arm chair hunter" and you want to go on a luxurious
safari to Africa. Say you've hired a company to book this
trip and make all the arrangements for you. That would
include your living quarters while you were in the jungle hunting lions and
elephants and whatever other species of animals you felt
could be justifiably and unnecessarily slaughtered for your
momentary pleasure. The victims of Hurricane Katrina are
living in a jungle they didn't ask to be in.

In addition to the tents erected to provide
living quarters for the victims of this (or any) natural
disaster, there would be other tents set up to give medical
assistance. Just think of the way it was done in the popular
T.V. series "MASH" and you'll get the idea.

All of the power necessary to keep these
facilities functional would be supplied by gasoline or
diesel-operated generators.

I think we should erect these "cities" in
several locations across the United States... because...
these natural disasters are not going to stop coming. I
think we should prepare for them in advance. That's
something we don't do any more: We don't prepare for things in advance.
No. We just wait for something drastic to happen... and
then... we react to it like a bunch of chickens running
around with our heads cut off.

You'll notice I haven't addressed the
problem of evacuating people and getting immediate medical
supplies to those people who have epileptic fits, convulsions,
heart attacks, or who need dialysis to stay alive. I don't
think we, as civilians, can do this. This requires
helicopters, military people trained in search and rescue,
and others who possess skills which everyday civilians simply
don't have.

The next five days particularly in New Orleans are going
to be worse than you could ever imagine. The people living
there (if you can call it "living") are actually existing in an
environment of what I choose to call "sewage soup". It's not
just water. It's water filled with urine, fecal matter,
dead bodies of humans, dead bodies of animals,
the by-product waste of petroleum materials, and so forth. And
other stuff I can't describe and I'm sure some stuff I don't even know about.