| Was the Destruction in New Orleans Divine Intervention? 10-09-2005, 12:31 AM
Was the destruction in New Orleans a divine intervention?
I have a neighbor that told me over the pass few weeks how disgusted she was when living in New Orleans. She told me that in her fifteen years of living there that the city had become more and more decadent. When she first moved there the city was thriving with different cultures but as time moved on she noticed that the city became more and more unsettling.
She said it wasn't uncommon to see prostitutes, male and female, walking down the streets in broad daylight. On any given day she also said it was common for her to see people having sex with each other in back alleys as she walked to the bus stop.
My former roommate, Ace, lost all of his brothers to murder in the three year span we were roommates. All three of them. Each time the suspect was never identified or caught. The city had a higher rate of unsolved murders then a few third world countries. His mother actually lived in the only apartment in a high rise building that wasn’t condemned. There were no street lights as they were all shot out and the place ran afoul with insects.
Thinking back I remember seeing corruption myself whenever I visited the city. I guess at the time I was so young that I didn't care or realize what I was looking at. Patrolling officers in the more dangerous sections wore jeans, running shoes and had two sidearms. Two guns and running shoes? I remember that at every Mardi Gras I attended it wasn't uncommon to see uniformed police officers sipping alcohol in cups along with the rest of the partying crowd.
Now in two hundred years of this countries existence every major hurricane has skirted New Orleans and hit in other areas along the gulf coast. Hurricane Katrina actually did something very strange. It first hit Florida and it was thought it would go north along the east coast. However, it moved east into the Atlantic Ocean and amazing turned in a circle heading back over Florida and into the Gulf of Mexico where it stood still and gathered strength. Then once it reach category 5 status it barreled right over New Orleans.
Usually scientists can predict the path of hurricanes with some certainty. They don't know exactly where it will hit but they can predict the hit within a area of a few hundred miles. Katrina however did things never before seen in the meteorological world and seemed to defy all logical reasoning.
New Orleans will never be the same as it was. The money being sunk into the city will most certainly re-vitalize it but in a new way. Hundreds of thousands of New Orleans citizens that made the city what it was have resettled across the country to start their lives anew (think the tower of Babel? ). 1/4 of the police force quit for one reason or another (many point out that only the most loyal and dedicated stayed to protect the city). Once the city was flooded with Federal Troops and out of state police officers it was said that many of the hardest criminal elements had evacuated to other states along with the rest of the city.
Is this evidence of divine intervention in a city plagued with murder, decadent sex, and poverty? Or was it just a natural disaster that could have happened at anytime?
I'm just thinking outside of the box... |
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