Dear Log,
«They looked as bedraggled as their grueling ride would suggest: 13 hours on the commandeered bus driven by a 20-year-old man. Watching bodies float by as they tried to escape the drowning city. Picking up people along the way. Three stops for fuel. Chugging into Reliant Park, only to be told initially that they could not spend the night.»Oh those looters! Don't they know you should go thru proper (lethal) channels?--"School bus comandeered by renegade refugees first to arrive at Astrodome"
Meanwhile, back in Temporary Abandonment Zone:
«But the authorities don't usually fail so spectacularly. Failure at this level requires sustained effort. The deepening of the divide between the haves and have nots, the stripping away of social services, the defunding of the infrastructure, mean that this disaster--not of weather but of policy--has been more or less what was intended to happen, if not so starkly in plain sight.[...] Many of the stories we hear about sudden natural disasters are about the brutally selfish human nature of the survivors, predicated on the notion that survival is, like the marketplace, a matter of competition, not cooperation. Cooperation flourishes anyway.»
--"The Uses of Disaster"
