Hurricane Katrina is barreling along at 13 mph with sustained winds of 175 mph and she is classified as a category 5, the highest hurricane rating. Katrina is expected to make landfall in New Orleans sometime overnight and the city has been ordered to evacuate. New Orleans is below sea level and the expected water surge will certainly submerge the city in 20-30 feet of water. There have only been 3 category 5 hurricanes to hit the US in the history of hurricane tracking and they have all left devastation in their wake. Katrina promises to be no different and it is all but certain she will level buildings and take lives.
It has taken Mother Nature and a category 5 hurricane to remove Tropical Storm Cindy from the focus of the news. For weeks the anti-war protest ostensibly designed to show a mother to expressing her grief has caused a bottle neck in Crawford Texas and saturated the news with every movement of TS Cindy. It is unfortunate that a category 5 hurricane will cause death and destruction and cause countless grief and loss to thousands of Americans. It is more unfortunate that until this hurricane, nothing was newsworthy enough to remove the band of squatters from the forefront of the news.
Interestingly, we now have counter demonstrators who are seen as villains by those who support TS Cindy as a bunch of violent people. Several weeks ago a jackass drove a pick up truck through the crosses planted by the anti-war demonstrators. He should suffer whatever the law says is appropriate. There were some signs torn up by people who though they were being infiltrated by the anti-war group but all in all it has been peaceful. Some people removed names from the crosses because the families did not want their loved one’s names on them. I guess some view this as antagonistic but the police allowed them to remove the names so long as they left the crosses in place. People removed the names and left. It is only right. TS Cindy and her troop did not have permission to use the names and were violating the families privacy and disrespecting the dead. Be that as it may, it would appear that we have several groups of protesters, all people with no real lives, causing havoc in a town of 700 people.
It is time for all this nonsense to stop. Cindy needs to go home and take care of the family she has that is still alive and the other protesters need to go back to where they came from and allow things in Crawford to return to normal. It is also time for the MSM to start covering other news and forget Crawford. In case they are unaware, she is now on her 16th minute. Unfortunately, the news that will be covered involves devastation to countless Americans. My prayers are with those who will suffer the effects of Katrina. I also pray that when the coverage of Katrina has subsided TS Cindy will be yesterday’s news.
Someone tell Cindy that President Bush is in New Orleans and will speak to her if she can get there right away.