An email about how it is going at the Astrodome. God bless the volunteers. I will soon be one of them. This came from a friend of someone who was just in the Astrodome.
To my friends:
I wanted to pass on that I am just returning from the astrodome and share with you as to maybe inspire you to come forward in any way possible to assist with the relief of Katrina's' aftermath. Tired and frustrated, I force myself to come home and rest some for only another day tomorrow. My tiredness is nothing to compare to the deep despair and anxiety I have witnessed today of the very young to the elderly. Physical exhaustion, mental and physical sickness, drug addictions untreated, emotional distress, combined with a large mass of filthy uncleanest people can only begin to explain the cesspool I have witnessed.
Adults and even children having emotional breakdown before my eyes. Vomiting, diarrhea, fever, infection everywhere. Parents aborting their parenting rights from the stress of simple survival. My god, these people are suffering. Fear, within even myself, of the mass of corruption that lays beneath many of this large group of people. The ultimate amazing grace of mankind reaching out and lessening the pain of others-a gift we need more of. My colleagues, friends, and family; I experience their love of others--or their lacking of.
I challenge you to come forward and assist. Tomorrow, I believe, I will be a regular volunteer and step into another zone of pain and crises. Unless the need medically super cedes this idea. My son will go, a friend and sister. We will make a difference. If you are in the area, call me ( ****** cell), if you'd like to group up around 11am and enter together. If not, the red cross is in such need, please give whatever you might be able to spare.
I need to leave this to you for now as to clear my mind for some period of peace.
And to say that it's good to be a Houstonian, the hell? You want to be sitting in a shelter with nothing but the clothes on your back and a few handouts? (see comments on my last post) For shame. Hope it never happens to you.
I do have to say that George Bush FINALLY gave the speech he should have given days ago. Douchebag. I bet he's been hammered with criticism and finally realized what a dick he's been. There are STILL thousands of people trapped in the city. My friend's uncle is one of them. He's on the roof of the courthouse.
I'm with Kanye West (on the telethon last night - I was like jigga what? when he said it, that surely can't be in the script) He said George Bush doesn't care about Black people. Bahahahahaha
Dang, the link to what he said is overloaded... But basically Kanye said a big fuck you to old Shrubbie.
I also want to adopt Jabbor Gibson. Greta Van Susimnotlookinuphowtospellherlastname interviewed him on Fox last night. What an amazing kid. Never drove a bus before. Just stopped and picked up whoever he could. Bush needs to give this kid a fucking medal.
"Rather than die on the streets of New Orleans, a young guy named Jabbor Gibson grabbed on an abandoned bus and drove 7 hours straight to Houston, rescuing complete strangers, including women and children, according to the Houston Chronicle.
I'm sick of hearing people who were completely abandoned and left to fend for themselves described as looters for doing what any of us would do in the same situation. I'm not talking about stealing TVs. I'm talking about taking food, water, shoes, and about taking matters into their own hands when the government had left them for dead.
Again, from the news report:
Quote:
One 8-day-old infant spent the first days of his life surrounded by chaos. He's one of the many who are homeless and hungry.
Authorities eventually allowed the renegade passengers inside the dome. But the 18-year-old who ensured their safety could find himself in a world of trouble for stealing the school bus.
"I dont care if I get blamed for it ," Gibson said, "as long as I saved my people."
Should he have left the bus to be destroyed by flood waters? Left 100 of his fellow citizens to drown or starve?
I hope this idea of this guy being "in a world of trouble" is just some reporter's conjecture. If the news report is true, he's my hero."
Posted by debutaunt at September 3, 2005 10:04 AM