My thoughts almost exactly. I told my husband that we would have been stuck in NO if we lived there. I can see getting necessities but electronics and appliances? Absolute chaos. I didn't watch much of Bush's speech Thursday as we were running errands-paycheck in bank to cover insurance with a stop at McKay's to trade in some old books we didn't want anymore and to get my husband a book he's been waiting for for about a year.

I'm reminded a bit of the aftermath of Lucifer's Hammer, a SF novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, about a comet striking Earth and the absolute chaos that resulted-landowners guarding property lines, expeditions to get supplies from flooded stores, faction led fighting to gain control of whatever was left. I'm going to re-read it in the morning. (Insomnia resulting from too much nap and caffeine plus I can't breathe through my nose well when I lay down so I'm staying vertical.)

I was saying to my husband that there is going to be some heads rolling (metamorphically) and something has got to change or else there is going to be a Civil War II.

Not to be so pessimistic about it, but I think Bush took advantage of 9/11 and rode the aftermath for what it was worth so he could change America to suit him and his buddies.

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