Earlier this morning I read a story about a New Orleans father who injured his hand when he used it to break a window in his house, to get on the roof with his family. The story describes his wife’s blood pressure meds being “all stuck together” after the rains. I’ve been in the wilderness. I know that shit happens, and problems escalate. But I just can’t imagine having no better way to break a window and keep medicine dry. What’s more, these folks got stuck in town because he thought he didn’t have room in his car for everyone he needed to take, and he’d heard the police were arresting people. The story doesn’t say arresting for what.
Here’s an entirely different response:
Eighteen-year-old Jabbor Gibson jumped aboard the bus as it sat abandoned on a street in New Orleans and took control. The teen packed it full of complete strangers (100 or more) and drove to Houston. He beat thousands of evacuees slated to arrive there. “It’s better than being in New Orleans,” said fellow passenger Albert McClaud, “we want to be somewhere where we’re safe.”
“I just took the bus and drove all the way here…seven hours straight,’ Gibson admitted. “I hadn’t ever drove a bus.
I dont care if I get blamed for it ,” Gibson said, “as long as I saved my people.”
They say he might be in big trouble. I sure hope not. FEMA can never buy effectiveness like this kid, and won’t ever be able to pull enough of the other folks off of their roofs into hospitals.