Henry today. Listening to TV last night I heard a woman say that her husband had been murdered in New Orleans during katrina. Apparently he was diabetic and weighed 380 lbs. My understanding is that the staff was abandoning the hospital and was unable to get him down from the sixth floor. So instead of […]
Henry here. I watched some of the coverage of the year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in New Orleans. People were saying that despite the passing of a year many people were still struggling with aftermath of the hurricane.
They listed a lot of ways that people were struggling physically: no decent shelter, no clean […]
In my 15th year, my father and I were getting into our car when our neighbor across the street walked out of his hotel-restaurant. We could see flames dancing in the windows. He said. “It is on fire and is gone.” He then did nothing to try to put out the fire or contact the […]
From the time we are born, boys are expected to be tough. Many of our sports are calculated to bring out our strength and ability to stand tough in the world. Growing up in a rural environment, boys were expected to be adventurous and to deal with life as it came along, without a lot […]
The aftermath of hurricane Katrina reminds us of any time we have been involved in a traumatic event. What it reminded me or was when Swiss AIR 111 crashed outside Halifax several years ago, with total loss of life. I worked on the team on that recovery operation, working as a `debriefer’, debriefing those […]
In previous posts I tried to cover some of the basic things that one should try to do to improve ones chances of survival. There are many other elaborate lists of both things on the web. Today we are going to do something different. What about the situation when we are not the survivor of […]
A little 13 year old girl when quizzed by a reporter about her experience in hurricane Katrina said: “I don’t want to talk about it.”
How foolish of the reporter to think that the girl would unburden her heart in front of the entire nation. Of course she will have to talk about her experience […]
We are still absorbing the terrible images from Hurricane Katrina. The images are seared into our minds. Tens of thousands of cars fleeing New Orleans. Tiny children being airlifted into helicopters, people stranded on roof tops begging for rescue, thousands of stranded people jammed into the Superdome. 80% of the city underwater and thousands dead. […]