Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Eerily Familiar
The devastation in the wake of Katrina is mind-boggling, but this really struck home for this Northridge quake participant.
The biggest single problem after the Northridge quake was the fact that it was nearly impossible to get good in and out of town with virtually all the highways suffering damage somehow. I had to leave the country on business just about 5 days after the quake and the normal one hour trip to LAX took about two and a half because of all the freeways that fell. Life in the hurricane zone has become incedibly difficult, and will be for some time to come.
Fortunately, there is Mark Steyn to put a rather interesting perspective on the whole thing. Can't say I disagree with him, but to date we have one very short phone call from family out of Jackson, Mississippi confirming that everyone, themselves and farther south, is alive and OK, but that there is "lots of property damage." Until we can get them a little better squared away, I hope you'll forgive me for not paying too much attention to the "big picture."
Join me in praying everyone on the devastaed Gulf Coast..
Portions of the Interstate 10 high-rise bridge over the mouth of Lake Pontchartrain east of New Orleans have collapsed. Another bridge, the causeway running across the middle of the lake, has structural damage, and engineers are inspecting U.S. 11, which also crosses the lake, to determine if it is structurally sound.If you can find it when you see this post CNN has some amazing vidoe of this particular part of the destruction linked by the words "Interstate in Pieces"
The biggest single problem after the Northridge quake was the fact that it was nearly impossible to get good in and out of town with virtually all the highways suffering damage somehow. I had to leave the country on business just about 5 days after the quake and the normal one hour trip to LAX took about two and a half because of all the freeways that fell. Life in the hurricane zone has become incedibly difficult, and will be for some time to come.
Fortunately, there is Mark Steyn to put a rather interesting perspective on the whole thing. Can't say I disagree with him, but to date we have one very short phone call from family out of Jackson, Mississippi confirming that everyone, themselves and farther south, is alive and OK, but that there is "lots of property damage." Until we can get them a little better squared away, I hope you'll forgive me for not paying too much attention to the "big picture."
Join me in praying everyone on the devastaed Gulf Coast..
