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Katrina Quote

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 09:00am on 2005-08-31 under

An extra quote today, because I wanted to put it out there while it's topical and don't feel like reordering my QotD queue again so soon after the last three times I tweaked it.

"It's not unfair to pronounce Katrina "our tsunami." The only reason she didn't kill thousands was that we had fair warning." -- [livejournal.com profile] zoethe, 2005-08-30

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posted by [identity profile] dfn-doe.livejournal.com at 01:20pm on 2005-08-31
busted html dooder!
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posted by [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com at 01:42pm on 2005-08-31
extra quote in the link to the original post (http://www.livejournal.com/users/zoethe/391352.html)
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 04:52pm on 2005-08-31
Whoops. I've got to bench-check the posts I submit to the 'at' daemon a lot more closely. Ordinarily I would've fixed that right away, but I was asleep when it got posted. Fixed now. Thanks.
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posted by [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com at 03:37pm on 2005-08-31
Replied directly, but 300 to 150,000 is not a fair comparison.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 04:51pm on 2005-08-31
That's the point though: the only reason it is hundreds instead of hundred-thousands is that we have the communications and organizational infrastructure to warn a million or so people it was coming.
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posted by [identity profile] scruffycritter.livejournal.com at 06:14pm on 2005-08-31
Yes, that *is* the difference. It was a hurricane and not a Tsunami.

Hurricanes have days of warnings associated with them. Tsunami's don't.

That's why it's not like one.

Aside: This is now my new definition of disaster. An event that can make rational people agree upon the exact same set of facts and yet come to diametrically opposed conclusions.
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posted by [identity profile] dptwisted.livejournal.com at 10:48pm on 2005-08-31
On the other hand, a disaster is a disaster, no matter the scale. It's just as bad for the residents of New Orleans/Biloxi as it was for the Indonesians.
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posted by [identity profile] scruffycritter.livejournal.com at 11:09pm on 2005-08-31
And Thais
and Sri Lankans
and Indians
and Burmese

I suspect the Jew in me is what is bothered here.

I don't want anything compared to the Holocaust unless it's really a Holocaust. And when I think that would be a fair comparison, I'm sure that the people who actually went through it will probably say, "Oh no...this was worse because of differences X, Y and Z "and probably take exception to something they don't perceive was as bad.

The things are not the same, even if they are similar.

Tragedies like this are invariably uniquely bad. Nobody should ever say "Me Too" when it comes one.
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posted by [identity profile] doomspark.livejournal.com at 10:09pm on 2005-08-31
The news is now saying that the death toll from Katrina may well be in the thousands. It doesn't compare with the tsunami, but I think it's going to be worse than initially thought.
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