Living without a television or cable is probably the most Bay Area thing I have ever done. (Besides drinking soy.) So when current events go on overdrive, it is hard to keep up with the online periodicals. It's more fact, less sensation, and no live action.
It makes me feel as if I am looking at the world from a very withdrawn window whereas the live picture makes it so much more real.
But then you come across lines and stories within AP, NY Times, or Reuters articles that just lodge in your brain and make it suddenly real.
Here is an amazing section of one report on Hurricane Ike.
From the Associated Press:
It could be days before officials know how many people have been killed and injured because of the storm.
Millions of people have been left without power, and officials need to get to more than 140,000 people who decided to brave the storm instead of fleeing it.
Mark Miner, a spokesman with the state government, said Saturday that "you can't force people to leave their homes.
"They made a decision to ride out the storm. Our prayers are with them," he told The Associated Press.
Some residents, like 75-year-old Sedonia Owen and her son Lindy McKissick decided to stay close to home so they could stop any potential looting after other residents left.
"My neighbours told me, 'You've got my permission. Anybody who goes into my house, you can shoot them,"' Owen, who was on her front porch holding a shotgun, told The Associated Press.
1 comment:
Wow. That's some neighborly love.
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