re: #889 SanFranciscoZionist

I’m sure I was a HELL of a lot less upset about Katrina than someone whose entire life was altered by it.

Katrina hit home for me. We were directly affected by it, for one, but not nearly as bad as N.O.

Living through a disaster like that is a bizarre community experience. You hear reports of looting and such, but having been through a few of these storms, including Andrew, there’s an automatic human kindness that kicks in. If you lost your trees, you were lucky because the next guy lost his trees and his car. If you lost trees and the car, you were lucky because the next guy lost his trees, car and roof. And so on. Someone was always worse off and you thanked God.

And if you had a bag of ice and the neighbor had none, you give them half. 90% of Miami was like that.