"A curtain rises in the darkness. Blanche Dubois enters, carrying a small suitcase in her hand, and a slip of paper in the other. As she looks about, her expression is one of shocked disbelief...
This is awful. And it isn't even the tipping point. My insides are in knots, thousands of miles away. All those people abandoned in the rising waters— They never had a chance. There are SO MANY PEOPLE still in the city, all over the Gulf Coast, who never had a whiff of one. When a natural disaster meets unmitagated poverty, presided over by unsurpassed arrogance and indifference, the results will be brutal beyond any forecast.
I"m thinking of all my friends, family, writers, and believers from Lousisana and the Coast, thinking of you mightily. I'm hoping dry clothes, good water, and warm friends are within your grasp. The kindness of strangers is coming, despite the terror, and I hope we'll all put
Katrina to shame.
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