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Hurricane Katrina
by Anthony Lane Stahlhut (Age: 48)
copyright 08-31-2005


Age Rating: 7 to 127

  Hurricane Katrina
Picture Credits:

Imagine your worst day,
and it's not even close.
To the pain and suffering,
on our Southern Coast.

No power, no water,
no buildings remain.
People become desperate,
things are insane.

And the water keeps coming,
as the levee's break.
We've got to help them,
for Heavens sake.

We're sending clean water,
so they have something to drink.
Some saying prayers,
as all their spirits sink.

They need food and clothing,
a place to lay down.
A way out of the suffering,
and a piece of dry ground.

And the water keeps coming,
as the levee's break.
We've got to help them,
for Heavens sake.

They're our brothers and sisters,
neighbors and friends.
When one leg is hurting,
on the other, we depend.

My heart is crying,
I'm sure yours is too.
I'm pleading to everyone,
do whatever you can do.

And the water keeps coming,
as the levee's break.
We've got to help them,
for Heavens sake.

Some have lost everything,
they have no where to go.
Families have been separated,
to locations they don't know.

So I'm asking, no I'm begging,
please do whatever you can.
The need is so great,
they need both of our hands.

And the water keeps coming...............




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03-10-2008 Eric Gasparich    

Things I learned from Katrina:

Wal-Mart and Lowes move a great deal faster that the bloated bureaucracy at FEMA.

In the end, it's best to count on yourself and not the Gov't to take care of yourself.

The two most corrupt and poorly run jurisdictions in North America are Quebec and Louisiana. For this, we can thank the French.

Spike Lee is tinfoil hatter nuts (actually, I knew that long before Katrina.)

It's an ill-wind that blows no good. Poor blacks of New Orleans might actually consider whether they should be grateful that a great wind came along to carry them away from servitude to their political leaders, who can be said, without rhetoric, to be more interested in their votes than their lives. (It doesn't seem to have occurred to them that the two are intimately connected- except in Chicago.)

"I love New Orleans, don't get me wrong," one of the Katrina refugees told the New York Times. "But I thank God we are in Atlanta." The best way to improve the lot of poor people is to move them out of poor regions into rich regions. Rich regions offer a culture of enterprise that can assimilate and improve the lot of new entrants, while poor regions labor under a cultural of poverty that stifles their most promising residents. Many of the people in NO were forced by Katrina to move to places where there might actually be jobs, and Heaven forbid, some of them actually found one.

Tragedies may be defined more by how we react to them than by what actually happens. Until the baby boomers, most Americans knew this first hand.


02-18-2006 Haley S.    

Hey paw paw I know it's way past Katrina but still people still don't have homes. it will take five years to repair.Roses are red violets are blue blue Katrina was bad and i am still sad


10-12-2005 Jack Curson    

I had some friends here in Sacramento put together a couple of trucks full of all kinds of items for the victims of Katrina. They closed up their business for two weeks just to go down to New Orleans and help the victims. It was quite amazing to see everyone come together to donate what they could or help physically. Your write just reminds me about people I know that care. Thank you...

Jack


09-12-2005 Debra Rose    

CONGRATULATIONS ANTHONY! Your work "Hurrican Katrina" is one of the winners under Theme in Choices of the Week!

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09-02-2005 Jeniffer Brand    

I'm worried about my friend Daisy. I havent heard from her yet and cant get through. What to do? I hope she's ok. But its tough right now. Even here on dry land. Its tough. Trust me.


09-01-2005 Regina Pate    

you have broke the levee of my imagination and the storm in my brain has been loosed if all of us join together and become one body of water imagine the hurricaine level we would be i want to help for heavens sake here is my hand for you to take.


09-01-2005 Roger Crique    

Indeed a tragedy of immense proportions. Sometimes I think that these events are purposely designed to test the resolve of humanity and to see how we get together and help out our fellow man. Some of your stanzas are a bit forced and with simple rewording they should sound better.


09-01-2005 David Pekrul    

I see the pictures, but still have a hard time imagining what it must be like.


09-01-2005 Debra Rose    

This nearly brought tears to my eyes. This is the largest tragedy we have had since the Twin Towers fell. I think it needs a little bit of editing in some places (I think there was a missing word) but for the most part, I just got caught up in it. It was beautiful


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