I've never been a weather junkie per se, but lookit: Katrina has
displaced upwards of a million Americans, and effected the lives of
untold millions more, taking into account volunteers, relatives of
displaced, the people in towns taking in the displaced, etc. Its
effects on the economy are yet to be guestimated, and true costs
probably won't be known for years.
Now we have another cat-5 hurricane bearing down on the part of the
gulfcoast that Katrina missed. A double-whammy? how many more lives
are going to be thrown into turmoil? What's going to happen to the
gulf's oil-bearing capacity? Are we looking at the kickoff to a
global depression?
This isn't a two-day story. If Rita does a Katrina on Texas...
well, the possibilities are scary as shit. If the media wasn't
obsessing over this, they'd be guilty of dereliction of duty. Just
because they've been guilty for the past almost four years doesn't
mean we ought to want them to ignore the important stories.
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