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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
The news, it makes me sad (and mad)
I am not a current events blogger, and words fail me when I try to even talk about the devastation in New Orleans and the vicinity. Not just for the people who've died or lost everything (although obviously that's the most important loss and I certainly don't want to downplay it), but for the city of New Orleans itself. For better or worse, that was a city with its own distinct personality, with centuries of history and antiques and architecture. How long will it take to rebuild? How much of it can never be replaced?
And if all that's not bad enough (it certainly is) now we have the sinful nature of man on full display down there. I guess it got far worse overnight, but yesterday I was reading an article about a man stealing jeans from a store, in full view of law enforcement personnel, and I was thinking -- have people no shame? I can just picture the guy a few years from now, wearing a pair of Levi's and complacently declaring that 'yep, these are my Hurricane Katrina jeans.' So, I guess the answer is no. Some people have no shame.
And also, while I'm complaining, gas is $3.33 for regular unleaded at the station down the hill from my house. Local gas station owners hold a special place of loathing in my heart, because they take the concept of price-gouging to new and amazing heights. It's summer? Cool, tourists expect to pay a lot for gas in remote areas, jack it up a dime. They have to carry that gas all the way up the hill to town, let's push it up another fifteen cents. Ooh! Oil-related disaster! Right on! Profit margin just went up. Seriously, I think it's about fifty cents a gallon higher than it is in the San Joaquin Valley. Not that I'll know, because I'll have to save up for three months before I can afford to drive down there.
Comments
I think Woodland is 2.99 now.
Posted by: debi at August 31, 2005 09:34 AM
On one of my blogs, I read that people are looters are attacking the Children's Hospital. Digusting. Here's the link:
http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/comments.php?id=P5387_0_1_0
You're right, people have no shame. This is terrible.
Our gas has not gotten that high -- I think it was $2.75 when I left for work this morning but then again we're not in a tourist area, by any stretch of the imagination. I always figured that people that lived near a tourist area had hidden gas stations somewhere where the tourists couldn't find it where the gas was a reasonable price. ;)
Posted by: mary at August 31, 2005 11:23 AM
2.89 in Fresno. Attacking a children's hospital?? How horrible!
Posted by: debi at August 31, 2005 12:42 PM
