Diesel Civil Trust
It is now eight days since an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, along with numerous other places that we do not hear much about—Carrefour Feuille, Léogane, Petit Goave, Miragoâne, Jacmel. My friends in Haiti report that the UN and the U.S. military and the countless humanitarian aid agencies are nowhere to be seen. The United States, in control of the airport and, in effect, of much else, has designated the center of what was once the capital city a “red zone.” In other words, it is a security risk, so the U.S. relief workers remain in the “green zone,” a term that has become all-too familiar to us from the disaster that is Iraq.
DESPERATION People run toward a U.S. helicopter as it makes a water drop near a country club used as a forward operating base for the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. Relief groups and officials are focused on moving aid flowing into Haiti to survivors of the powerful earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday. (Photo: Jae C. Hong / AP via the Boston Globe)
Jordanian military officers leave with humanitarian aid and supplies to be sent to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, at Amman airport January 14, 2010. Jordan is sending 6 tons of humanitarian aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti and will dispatch a field hospital to Haiti to help treat the wounded. (via)
During the turbulent days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, New Orleans police shot 10 civilians, at least four of whom died, according to interviews and internal police documents.
In New Orleans, Chaos in the Streets, and in Police Ranks Too - ProPublica (via abbyjean)
DEVIL’S SPIT Lava glows while cascading on the slopes of Mount Mayon as seen from Lingnon Hill in Legazpi, the Philippines. (Photo: Reuters via the Telegraph)
In a ruling that could leave the government open to billions of dollars in claims from Hurricane Katrina victims, a federal judge said late Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had displayed “gross negligence” in failing to maintain a navigation channel — resulting in levee breaches that flooded large swaths of greater New Orleans.
DROWNED TOWN Homes in Mabelton, Georgia after heavy rains caused flash floods throughout 17 counties in the state. At least eight deaths have been linked to the flooding. (Photo: John Bazemore / AP via Time Magazine)
these are big fires
The smoke over Colorado - which has made the mountains west of Denver invisible from downtown Denver - has come directly from the massive 85,000-acre wildfire in Southern California, according to the National Weather Service.
Although Denverites could barely see the gray outlines of the foothills
immediately west of Golden and Lakewood this afternoon, the higher
mountains had disappeared in a dirty white haze.
Norv Larson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand
Junction, said a high-pressure system on the Arizona-New Mexico border
has caused an airflow that is carrying the smoke in an easterly
direction.
“Looking at satellite trajectories, we can follow it all the way back to
California,” said Larson. “There is a long line of smoke. These fires
are so large and burning so hot, they’re generating their own weather
and lofting smoke thousands of feet into the atmosphere.” (denver post via my mom)
unhappy anniversary
four years ago today, hurricane katrina first hit land. thousands died, hundreds of thousands displaced, and an economic cost of around $150 billion. the damage is still going on - damaged mental health, damaged educational system, damaged health care system, still over 2,000 families in the gulf coast living in FEMA trailers, etc, etc.
please take a moment today to think about it.
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