Coach Flip Naumburg's Journal

Thursday, September 1, 2005

EBB TIDE

Things have a way of sooner or later all coming together in one place at one time. Sometimes this truth manifests itself with something almost unfathomable, something like this Hurricane Katrina.

It’s almost like all available bad weather patterns merge or meet once in a while in one place on the earth. That’s what seems to have happened here. Katrina made her very serious mark on the Mississippi Delta before moving northward. It is not a new phenomenon, however. They have had equally huge hurricanes hit down there before (Camilla). It is not new to have fast moving storms in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the light of the day after the storm deed was done, the devastation left in its wake is crystal clear. The appearance of Mother Nature’s angry angel left behind it a tear-driven aftermath and a mountain of destruction and death to deal with.

B-B-BACK TO YOU, WES

It is not hard for a news reporter on assignment in New Orleans or wherever nearby to now get a very compelling sound/vision bite for all the viewers back home, one that has a hurricane victim fighting back tears while describing how they are now left with nothing. Their eyes are filled with sadness and despair. It is yet impossible to say what the final measure of ruin might ultimately be.

THE WAKE OF THE FLOOD

The mayhem left by the storm has also brought about a lot of bad behavior by desperate citizens and others. Looting scenes are all over the tube. It’s almost hard to watch. This stuff depicts REAL reality TV, and it’s not very pretty. Tragedy brings out the best and unfortunately sometimes also the worst in people.

As of today they are still rescuing people from rooftops inside the city of New Orleans, not to mention gathering up the many bodies still floating around in the flooded Mississippi Delta. For being the "greatest country in the world" we as a nation often seem pathetically under-prepared for certain situations.

SHUT UP!

My greatest personal concerns these days are things like, "Is Jordan adjusting to Kindergarten?", "Where can we get a lacrosse field to play on in February?", and other items that seem so important. I whine and complain about the things that do not always go perfectly, or even well. A good natural or other world altering disaster make me remember that I am so lucky and truly blessed to be where I am, to live where I live, to do what I do, and that I do indeed have a life.

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