[at-l] There's something out of synch here

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 10:00 PM 9/1/2005 -0400, Martin Fors wrote:
>There's something out of synch here:  300 miles from the ongoing tragedy of
>New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf, there's a Major League baseball game
>going on seemingly oblivious....  Now, I'm an avid baseball fan, having
>played in college and elsewhere, but I'm having trouble accepting this.  Am
>I alone?  rusty

I was in a place yesterday where two TVs were running side by side. One was 
on CNN with all the news of the catastrophe named Katrina, the other was 
running "King of the Hill", a cartoon show for adults. Life goes on.

Today I was painting the trim around two windows on the front of my house 
while thinking about Shane who doesn't know if his house has a roof any 
more. Later I watched reports on TV where people are going berserk in New 
Orleans and shooting at the people trying to rescue them so that some 
agencies don't dare go in to help while other victims are asking where is 
the government? Why aren't we getting any help?

Those trapped in the midst of all this don't have access to the news media 
of course. They only see the destruction around them and have no way of 
knowing that the emergency services are overwhelmed by the magnitude of the 
problem. OTOH this scenario has been forecast for years. They showed clips 
of all the times that people have tried to get the levees reinforced only 
to have the money go elsewhere.

It hurts but I have no choice. I must accept that like 9/11/2001, our 
corner of the world has changed again and will never be quite the same.