Well, since it’s been a few days since my last post, I thought a quick update was in order. Things have been — busy.<\/p>\n
So far, private donations of Katrina hurricane relief efforts have topped $700,000,000<\/a> . This tells me a couple of things. First, my belief in the basic kindness and decency of most people is not misplaced. Second, cries of racism from someone I consider to be one of the most racist human beings on the planet (Jesse Jackson) are not born out in those numbers or in the stories I’ve heard and read. People aren’t helping black or white people; they are helping people<\/em>.<\/p>\n The floodwaters in New Orleans are dropping faster than publicly anticipated<\/a>. This is due to a few things mainsream media don’t seem to mention: good weather promotes evaporation; some of that water will drain through the soil itself; more pumps are online; deliberate breaks in the flood wall and levee system are draining.<\/p>\n Plans are being made to open the French Quarter within 90 days<\/a>. All of New Orleans is not under water. In fact, not all of New Orleans was ever flooded; just most of it. For better or worse, Mardi Gras is planned for the end of February.<\/p>\n Slowly, but surely, things are coming back online.<\/p>\n Finally, if you haven’t yet given, would you please give something to The American Red Cross<\/a>? Trust me — it matters.<\/p>\n Technorati tags: flood aid<\/a> Hurricane Katrina<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, since it’s been a few days since my last post, I thought a quick update was in order. Things have been — busy. So far, private donations of Katrina hurricane relief efforts have topped $700,000,000 . This tells me a couple of things. First, my belief in the basic kindness and decency of most […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}