Subj : Re: Nick
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 07:47:02

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:

> Yeah, I am fine.  Thanks for the concern.  Power is back on for me,

Good to hear

> This won't be over soon either.  It will be months before these people 
> can go back.

More on this in a minute

> People are doing great things right now helping out, providing food,
> clothes and other things that they need.  But I don't know what will
> happen in 6, 8, 10 weeks, maybe more when it isn't on the news any
> longer and people aren't sending necessary things to help take care of
> these people.

One can Hope the money people are sending will outlast the initial surge 
of concern. Although with the economy, and the tsunami, one has to wonder 
how much discretionary income people have left to throw at these things, 
higher gas prices will further reduce that number.

After 9/11 other charities found it hard to raise money because everyone 
already gave what they had to the Red Cross, if people similarly already 
gave to the Tsunami relief efforts, and then had their incomes eaten away  
by higher gas prices, donations may not meet the need.

> Can people live on a mattress in a gymnasium for 2 months?

If it helps the answer is yes, if you read anything about refugees in 
Africa, Holocaust survivors, and everyday people living in developing 
countries, life needs very little to take a foothold, and hope helps a 
lot...

The larger issue is how many of these people won't have lives to go back 
to, the Red Cross can help you stay alive, but how do you get them a job, 
a house, and maybe even counseling when the disaster is declared to be 
over, and the school wants their gym back?

History channel had a show on recently called Issac's Storm about a big 
hurricane that laid waste to Galveston Island back in the early turn of 
the century, it spent some 10-15 minutes on how they rebuilt afterwards 
as well, they raised the entire island by 20 feet with trucks and trucks 
full of soil from the mainland.

With so much of what makes NO the city that it is being its history, one 
wonders if they even have the option of rebuilding the way Galveston did, 
or just restoring what was, and adding bigger Walls/Levees.

> I just don't even know what to think right now 
> or what to plan to do.  Sorry, I am kind of disjointed right now.

Give it time

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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