The Fugees

You all know that I’m not actually so shallow as to think my bad pad thai experience in any way compares to the madness that’s happening along the Gulf Coast, right?

Looking at tsunami devastation a few months ago made me wonder if natural disasters are just earth’s way of regenerating itself. You can’t stop or avoid a natural disaster and even if you’re prepared for it, you never really know how it’s going to play out.

I state the obvious when I say it’s terrible that people died and others lost their homes and all their belongings.

But the lawlessness that followed in New Orleans was much more disturbing. It’s hard for me to watch more than a few minutes of the news. I couldn’t imagine how we could even get water and supplies to those people without starting a riot. Then the other day I saw a guy on TV, pushing a cart along and very calmly passing out bottles of water.

And how did all those news cameras get in? I may get to find out in the coming weeks, as I have been put in the rotation of reporters available to cover the aftermath.

Hope I get to cover the cruise ship refugee camps.