This is going to be a somewhat rambling post because I myself can’t quite understand what I am trying to say… but it basically boils down to the fact that I was wrong.. about a lot of things… regarding one of the most horrendous things to happen to a country that I will one day call my home.

today I have spent quite some time surfing the net… (hence the previous post)… one of the sites I came across today has changed my mind on a number of misconceptions and conclusions I had drawn from my very limited knowledge of what happened in Louisiana in Septmber.

I like to think that I’m a pretty balanced person who doesn’t accept “news” as the truth.  However the reports that I read during and after Hurricane Katrina I accepted blindly as truth and from those reports I drew some conclusions that were very very wrong.  I had little sympathy for the people left behind in New Orleans.  I couldn’t quite understand WHY they didn’t leave.. as far as I knew they had been given every warning and opportunity to go.

At the time although my sympathy was limited.. the aftermath and what I read about the conditions in New Orleans soon cleared my mind of the “Serves them right” conclusion that I am ashamed to say I had come to…. Nobody.. NOBODY deserves to go through what these people went through.  Not the prisoners in the cells…. not the looters who took advantage… not the homeowners too stubborn to leave… not the people who did everything in their power to prepare, follow guidelines and advice and still have their lives and homes devestated and certainly not the people who COULDN’T get out.

The ANTIGRAVITY website is the website that educated me… I have read
every single word in this blog and I’m glad that I did… because I’m ashamed.. completely ashamed… of the conclusions that I had drawn… even if those conclusions and feelings were kept private and not vocalised. 

I still felt them.  And they were wrong.

Leo’s post “Things that make me go awww” brought me to tears… and I know I’m a cry baby… anyone who reads my blog knows this.. (Fly Away Home anyone) but what this man is dealing with touches me in a way that I feel stupid about.  I feel for him… I feel sad that he is having to go through this. When I read about him finding his grandmas house it made me choke… but it was his post about why some people COULDN’T get out that made me ashamed. I hadn’t even considered these reasons…

No-one deserves this…