Sunday morning, hot humid, but life seems to be creeping back to normal. Rumors that friends have power float by. Starbuck’s is jammed, bagel shops sold out, but grocery stores seem to be humming, particularly the take out food sections.
A few stop lights working, but most major intersections have four way stops signs up.
I am struck by how quiet things are. No AC motors humming. People are generally civil, but I have seen a little quasi-road rage, i.e. people screaming at other drivers who didn’t get the idea that for a moment the rules have changed.
As in most tragedies, the poor people got hit the hardest. I am sitting again in Kinko’s, cool, dry, WiFi, and listening to NPR via iTunes via KCRW in Santa Monica.
Bush apparently has flown over, and pontificated about the destruction. There is this great scene in Fahrenheit 911 where they show him in at a photo op…cutting brush.
As I wrote yesterday a smart politician would grab a chain saw, and get out in the middle of some trashed street and lend a hand. There are enough digital cameras and bloggers so that the good deed would resonate around the world.
NPR news guys said that the good thing was that the storm didn’t linger. I guess I didn’t know storms lingered. It will be interesting to see what happens going forward. Historically Florida has never ever invested in infrastructure. I wonder if we will now.
One friend told me that he had seen a fleet of out of state power repair trucks. I haven’t seen any yet. I hope they get here in the relative near future. I long since have lost either confidence in our various public entities. We have had second rate schools for so long that people just have gotten used to the idea that the schools will be inferior. Winter Park, FL 32789 recently voted to buy back the power company from Progress Energy ecause they just got tired to the power going out. I think the bigger problem is that they got tired of re-setting all of the digital clocks on the various devices.
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