Hurricane Season 2005

[animegirl]

We talked about that on #TNL, two different companies (AFP/Getty and AP) wrote the captions, Yahoo doesnt actually write news they just compile it, so really there's no racism going on.

I saw that it was two different companies, but it still shows the perception that people have. How do they know that those people "found" that food? They "found" it in the same store that the black people were "looting" from, huh?

[elfneedsfood]

It's lucky they found it before the black people stole it.

[Diff-chan]

I saw that it was two different companies, but it still shows the perception that people have. How do they know that those people "found" that food? They "found" it in the same store that the black people were "looting" from, huh?

The AFP/Getty people saw it as "finding", the AP people saw it as "looting". Kinda like how its called the "Civil War" in one part of the US and the "war of northern aggression" or whatever the fuck somewhere else.

It all depends on the guy writing the copy. How do you know the writer wasn't black, huh? There's really no story here.

[Mman]

I think they were liberating that food. The food clearly wants to be eaten and it would just rot and go bad sitting in a store.

[dave is ok]

If I were there I would have looted a whole pharmacy

[Cowdisease]

One of my college friends lives (well, now lived) in a suburb of New Orleans, but thankfully he and his family evacuated on Sunday. They drove nearly 14+ hours to Mobile, only to go further to Birmingham when they were told Katrina was heading towards Mobile.

He's not sure if his second-floor apartment is submerged in water, but he's slowly accepting the possibility that he'll have to start over anyway. It might take up to four months before he can go back and survey the damage. In the meantime, he's driving another 14+ hours to Houston to live with some relatives.

[dave is ok]

One of my friend just went to Florida to do electrician shit and help Hurricane relief like a month or two ago and tomorrow he's driving to New Orleans to start over there.

16 hour days/7 days a week/40 dollars an hour (maybe more) = FUCKING LOADED.

[Wilykat]

I had alot of cousins by Lake Ponchatrain whose homes are now completely underwater. A total loss, but only in property. Thankfully, all of them got out of the area. However, my Grandmother is still stuck in the west bank; no flooding, but there's no electricity or running water, and no idea when they'll get it back there. I'm not sure just how much canned food and bottled water she has.

I'm frustrated because almost each and every one of our relatives offered to drive her out of the area, and she was too stubborn to leave.

</LJ>

[Fe 26]

I'MZ ALIVEZ!

Monday classes got canceled (but only after I went to all of mine). The dorm dad told us we all had to leave, BUT, the Prez decided we could stay IF we signed a release form saying we wouldn't sue the school if we died and stuff.

So I stayed monday night and all of tuesday. It was pretty windy and rained like 30 or 40 hours with out end. Power never went out here, though it did go out at my parents' house.

We have awesome weather today. Sunny with a nice mild temp.

[George]

Aww, we were hoping for something exciting, like having to raft through your ruined neighborhood on top of a deceased relative to liberate some food from their watery supermarket graves.