Hurricanes

As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida, I'm remembering reading in the newspaper about Katrina several days before it was to arrive in New Orleans. The story said it could (likely would) leave southern Louisiana and the city uninhabitable, that the levees would be overwhelmed. 

And I'm wondering what happened in the Yucatan already this morning as Milton passed at an even more powerful level, and what's happening right now as it passes the western end of Cuba. No word on either of those places in our media, as far as I've heard.

And North Carolina (and Georgia, and other places in the Southeast) are still in the midst of search and rescue and major recovery from Hurricane Helene, while Republicans thwart those efforts with lies. 

It was bad enough during the Katrina debacle to have the usual incompetence, racism, and financial greed making things worse: now we have overt manipulation of vulnerable people, carried out in an attempt to seize national political power.

It's another one of those moments where I can't believe what these supposed leaders have sunk to.