Hurricane Katrina... The Disaster....
All of us offer our sympathies to those impacted by the hurricane in the U.S. Gulf region. It's hard to imagine finding any light news in the coverage surrounding that tragedy this week. But I was touched by the story of a man in Mississippi who had ridden out the storm at home. As the waters began to subside, he watched the flows from his front porch, side-by-side with a flying squirrel, lizard, and bullfrog -- all happy to be on a dry porch and completely unconcerned about the strange company. I just can't get that mental picture, and its implied lessons, out of my mind…
Hurricane Katrina—a nightmare of a hurricane with 140-mile-an-hour (225-kilometer-an-hour) winds and a storm surge nearly two stories tall—came ashore early this morning at the mouth of the Mississippi River near New Orleans…
Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which ranks hurricanes from one to five according to wind speeds and destructive potential. A Category 4 hurricane has winds from 131 to 155 miles an hour (211 to 249 kilometers an hour) and is capable of doing a massive damage…
One of the possible reasons for the vulnerability could be the rapid population growth on the coast during the past three decades…
I have been watching every scrap of news I can get over the internet, as well as CNN and BBC World on cable, and of course the local news reports which are shocked and aghast at all that has happened. To see citizens of ‘the most powerful country in the world’ on their knees, people crying and begging just like all of the news reports they have seen in the past of disasters in Indonesia or Bangladesh or Somalia, not to mention Iraq, is beyond belief. The scenes of looting and violence defy description. The US has helped so many other places over the years, and in Europe, they find it terrible to see the US in need and help not arriving fast enough…
As part of what will likely become a multi-year recovery effort, My Company - through our recently established charitable foundation - has made an initial $25,000 donation to the American Red Cross Relief efforts to assist in providing immediate aid to the victims of this tragedy…
Kudos for such a wise thought...
Hurricane Katrina—a nightmare of a hurricane with 140-mile-an-hour (225-kilometer-an-hour) winds and a storm surge nearly two stories tall—came ashore early this morning at the mouth of the Mississippi River near New Orleans…
Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which ranks hurricanes from one to five according to wind speeds and destructive potential. A Category 4 hurricane has winds from 131 to 155 miles an hour (211 to 249 kilometers an hour) and is capable of doing a massive damage…
One of the possible reasons for the vulnerability could be the rapid population growth on the coast during the past three decades…
I have been watching every scrap of news I can get over the internet, as well as CNN and BBC World on cable, and of course the local news reports which are shocked and aghast at all that has happened. To see citizens of ‘the most powerful country in the world’ on their knees, people crying and begging just like all of the news reports they have seen in the past of disasters in Indonesia or Bangladesh or Somalia, not to mention Iraq, is beyond belief. The scenes of looting and violence defy description. The US has helped so many other places over the years, and in Europe, they find it terrible to see the US in need and help not arriving fast enough…
As part of what will likely become a multi-year recovery effort, My Company - through our recently established charitable foundation - has made an initial $25,000 donation to the American Red Cross Relief efforts to assist in providing immediate aid to the victims of this tragedy…
Kudos for such a wise thought...
posted by Prasanna Ramachandran | 8:16 AM
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