This is the last day of "normal" as the rest of the country has known it. This is a sea change day, a watershed day, like 9/11. The "storm surge" from Katrina is going to engulf the country - economic, humanitarian, political - the whole deal. I sense things are about to be different. Like the migration of the middle west during the dustbowl, only faster.
There will be "before" and "after".
This changed everything.
"This is the last day of "normal" as the rest of the country has known it. "
In many ways, this is more of a transformative event than 9-11, IMO.
The sad thing is that I haven't yet seen a media talking head that "gets it" -- They're saying the words, but they still act like they'll be back to "business as usual" in short order.
Or we could ride bicycles.
I hope I don't get laughed as for asking this question but what preparations should we be making (on a personal level)? I'd like to think we have a well stocked pantry but what do y'all consider "well stocked?" 2 week's worth? A month?
Correct, but the politicians won't draw the correct conclusions. The federal government has failed. There is no wall that would keep out a cat 5 hurricane to the west of NO, so any promise to do so would represent another fed gov failure. It's ok to provide federal aid AFTER the crisis as we are now doing. But anyone from now on who thinks the federal government is going to keep them safe is an idiot.