katrina

awh they named a hurricane after my own dear mother. well ok technically shes 'catherina' but most people say 'katrina' and she's talked about changing it to that but for fun (ala the fun she had with her kids names) making the spelling 'katriona' and therefore more irish. (oirish)
though in the name stakes compared to her sisters she got lucky my nanny apparently was really into wuthering heights, liked catherine, but has the same sense of whimsy when spelling names
aoife. eoin. brid (with an accent over the i)
poor deirdre gets mad because her name has been co-opted by another ethnic minority, and people are startled when she doesnt look the way her name would suggest. . . .
btw, they also pronounce it wrong. deirdre of the sorrows indeed.

back to the point, there was one, so yes what mother nature can do is amazing, terribly so, and its awful the stories of people being trapped and the ones suffering the most, (as always?) the poor and the elderly pointing again to the unfairness of it all,

however ive got some major big huge oh my god issues with people referring to this as their "hiroshima"
em well actually its a bit different
the other comparison was 'this is our tsunami'
er no, not quite by a longshot unless they were talking about coastal areas in africa that felt some of the reverb

yesterday 800 people probably closer to 1000 died in iraq, mostly women and children, on their way to celebrate a holy day
but the headline news on sky one, bbc, etc was about this natural disaster.
(that is my mother. ok ok but if you dont laugh, whats left to do?)

not for a second meaning that the people are any less deserving of sympathy, support, help, and aid
they are, i cannot imagine having your life literally swept away, to be rootless and not by choice, no place to call home its heartbreakingly sad and i hate for anyone to experience that

beneath my warm fuzzy exterior however, just to show what a smug middle class gal i am, no word yet on whether our time share in the french quarter is ok. what im really worried about.
is it?