striving for happiness...

I've just begun to realize the devastation that has been going on down in Louisiana - I haven't been paying too much attention to the news and how much the hurrican had devastated the area, particularly New Orleans! Some of the photos are just heart breaking and make me want to cry for all of them! At the same time, I'm not really sure how I'm feeling about the photojournalists and the media who are reporting on this stuff. On MSNBC at this site, if you go to see the slideshow, there is one photograph in there that shows a dead body floating in the water! It's terrible enough seeing those poor (and literally poor!) people clinging to their rooftops and being airlifted by helicopters - I don't need to see a dead body purely for shock value! That disturbs me!

Now here's my question: are the hurricanes just going to get worse and worse as time goes on? Or is this just going to be one of those flukey awful ones that hits once every thirty years? The news was saying that the last really devastating one was Hurricane Camille back in 1969! Who knows? All I know is that right now, I would rather take the shitty summer we've had over anything that might be happening down south!

And to all of those people who are going to be suing CN Rail now in Wabamun because their little summer cottages - no, not even their cottages! The LAKE has been tainted...get a little perspective! People down south have lost everything. You've lost a second property - at least you still have one! CN didn't force the derailment and it didn't happen on purpose. You should feel thankful that it wasn't worse than it could have been. Now stop complaining and start helping with the cleanup!

ok...I think that's all for today. feel free to comment and banter back.
have a nice hump day!
~casey