I'm not sure people realize how much impact a
hurricane can have. G.W.Bush does, at least. Today he said
New Orléans may need a decade to
recover... a lot of editorials floating around seem to say that it still has a long way to
go, and that the US gulf coast
struggles, a year after the coming of
Katrina.
As
Ernesto nears, switching up and down from hurricane to
tropical storm, pain lingers... Wounds of Katrina are slow to
heal, and the empty streets of New Orléans weep, Katrina's legacy being a coast of ghost towns. Pain and fury still rage a year after the catastrophy. Bush praises a `
sense of renewal' along the gulf coast but uneven
progress marks the efforts to
rebuild. As the
first hurricane of the
season forms, New Orléans
remembers Katrina, and struggles to attract former residents back -- while Bush sees a '
hopeful future' for the region.
The gulf coast needs our
prayers, help them. New Orléans is still a shell of its former self, and Katrina errors mar the Bush legacy. It has been
a year of tears in Louisiana... now
silence after the storm.
The
Mississippi's recovery moves in fits and starts, volunteers are still helping, residents still wait for others to join. At least they have some
hope, and
resolve will
see them through the Big Easy's rebirth, which is unfortunately proving difficult. The storm's fallout has so many
lives in limbo,
dreams on hold, and lessons unlearned. There's now the Katrina syndrome,
thriving amidst devastation... Birds sing after a storm, of the survivors' tales of life on the
mend.
Bush affirms aid for Katrina-ravaged areas who have lived with this tragedy every day. Feds say New Orléans is
storm-ready, though some are less
optimistic. They say 'Please Help Us' - even now, the storm's impact is still strong. Regardless, Bush is enduring the criticism over Katrina... You can say it was a
flood of ineptitude that flowed from Katrina, but Bush sees '
renewal'.
In New Orléans, the
bravest still think '
Yes we can': that
lessons must be
learned.