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Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl. Damn. He’d better not be falling for her. Sure she’s cute, but I can’t think about that.

~ Jenna-Lynne Duncan

Jenna-Lynne Duncan Hurricane Katrina Kidnapping New Orleans Romance Young Adult

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

~ Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers Build Faith Hurricane Katrina Nonfiction

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

~ Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali 2005 2010 In Literature 21St Century Hurricane Katrina Natural Disasters New Orleans Politics Politics Of The United States United States

Those who did better were those who didn't wait idly for help to arrive. In the end, with systems crashing and failing, what mattered most and had the greatest immediate effects were the actions and decisions made in the midst of a crisis by individuals.

~ Sheri Fink

Sheri Fink Heroism Horror Hurricane Katrina Storms

Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages.

~ Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward Hurricane Katrina Life Metaphor

Accident - A statistical inevitability. Some nuclear power plants are built on fault lines, but ever mine, dam, oil rig, and waste dump is founded upon a tacit acceptance of the worst-case scenario. One a long enough timeline, everything that can go wrong will, however small the likelihood is from one day to the next. The responsible parties may wring their hands about the Fukushima meltdown - and the Gult of Mexico oil spill, and the Exxon Valdez, and Hurricane Katrina, and Chernobyl, and Haiti - but accident is no accident.

~ Crimethinc.

Crimethinc. Accident Anarchism Anarchy Chernobyl Crimethinc Exxon Valdez Fukushima Haiti Hurricane Katrina

Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late 1970s, the hostage crisis became a symbol of America's inability to take decisive action in the face of pervasive problems. In the same way, the uncontrolled oil plume could become the objective correlative of the country's inability to govern itself.

~ David Brooks

David Brooks Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Hurricane Katrina Iran Hostage Crisis United States
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