Katrina Bloggers
Katrina is yet another example of when bloggers come into their own. Crikey, they even managed to get Condi Rice away from her shopping at Feragamos in New York! This moving account from a New Orleans resident, now in Austin TX, recalling the time one of the levees broke, posted by Ray in Austin TX "…..we got to talking and they pointed to their friend and said, "This is our refugee."
I said to him, "From New Orleans? I grew up in Algiers!"
He says, "Algiers? You're dry, bra!"
"What neighborhood you from?"
"Lakeview."
Silence.
"Shit."
And I hugged him, and he hugged back, hard, and then he didn't want to let go, and I almost started to tear up, and we just stood there in the middle of the bar, two grown men, total strangers, hugging each other like lost brothers.
His name was Jonathan; he lived on Spencer Avenue, 600 yards from the Hammond breach. I asked him when the breach happened, because everybody is still saying on the news it broke Tuesday, but I blogged about it Monday afternoon here, and I know I was hearing rumors about it before that. He said, "Tuesday is bullshit, bra. Nine AM Monday morning, there was this huge BOOM and instantly five feet of water in my house, violent rolling water, and rising fast." He ran upstairs and was trying to save his vinyl collection, stacking it on his bed, til he passed out and woke up five hours later.When he was rescued, he could hear neighbors all around, in their attics, knocking knocking knocking trying to get somebody's attention. The firefighters who pulled him out said three things, "Are you over 18? Are you healthy? Do you have military experience?" He said yes, yes, yes, and they handed him an axe and said "you're hereby deputized" and he spent the rest of the day chopping through people's roofs and pulling them from their attics."
posted by Tony @ Monday, September 05, 2005
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