I am writing this post after just watching The OC, of course. After the show, however, they showed President Bush's address to the Nation about Hurricane Katrina. My friends and I started to talk about the situation and what we thought about it. I told them about someone in my Zoology lab who had to transfer here because his school had been flooded. While we were talking we came upon so many questions: Where do they live? What are they going to do next? Why didn't they leave sooner? What were they thinking when it happened?

I have so much sympathy for them, but I can't understand when we have so much land in the US why we would build a city when we know the problems that will arise. Everyone knew if a hurricane did come, that New Orleans is located in an area where the water can not just flow out, it would have to be pumped out. I understand that there are many economic benefits of their location being next to a coastline, but it just seems to be illogical. I can't help but think that maybe we shouldn't even rebuild the city, maybe relocate it. But by no means am I an expert on this topic.

So it's understood, I don't blame anyone. I mean it was a natural disaster, but these are just my thoughts. We can't prevent everything in life, but if we can, we should.

On another note, after hearing stories and reading articles, it makes me so happy to see how people are opening up in this kind of situation. People are renting out rooms for no rent. Schools are opening up to students' whose schools have been destroyed. It must be so hard for them, I'm certainly glad to see that people are trying to make it a little bit easier. When you watch the news nowadays it's so depressing; it's nice to see that there are still so many nice people out there.