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HURRICANE KATRINA
August 29, 2005, would forever change the United States of America and its people. Our country's emergency systems would be tested: Many would fail miserably. Some folks would insist that this natural disaster was followed by an unnatural disaster of complacency and indifference when human life was in jeopardy.
Those of us who realized that the cavalry indeed wasn't coming in time scurried to secure as much emergency assistance and supply as could be humanly stuffed into a Gulf-coast-bound motor vehicle, and later witnessed an America we had never seen before--an America bedeviled in a slow-motion, surrealistic, third-world nightmare.
As a memorial to the perils of poor national, state and local planning, as well as a reminder of the fallacy of shadow boxing for cash on foreign battlefields, the Fall, 2005, issue of Tables of Stone aptly recorded The Escape Project team's encounter with disasters, both natural and unnatural, following the invasion and storming of the beach by Hurricane Katrina.
Read full Newsletter: Fall, 2005, issue of Tables of Stone
Hurricane Katrina Photo: by NASA. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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