Mayor Nagin Should Rethink His Request
Judy Ramsook
September 19, 2005
If your city is facing a disaster of magnificent proportions that is capable of destroying your home and your sense of normalcy, and the mayor of that city has given an evacuation order to the precious people who live there, and the persons who had the means to follow the order did so, would you want to return to that same city, a few days later amidst all the contamination that now dwells in that city?
Contamination caused by overflowing toilets and sewerage lines with fatal entities such as Ecoli and a host of other deadly bacteria that the city is yet to cleanse itself of. Apart from that, what about other factors, such as living quarters and other forms of normalcy.
And if your home has been destroyed, where would you live? Say your place of employment has also been destroyed by raging flood waters, where would you work? Woud you think that by returning to a section of a city that has nowhere to shop, work or live the way you once lived before the storm struck, you would truly feel as if your life has returned to normal?
Not quite so. Unless of course you are the type who is willing to tolerate the intolerable. For if you returned to your home that is still standing, you would first have to make sure all that accumulation of flood water is gone from the abode, and then you would want it to be clean.
Something which might not be as an easy enough task as it sounds. For that would involve ridding your home of those fatal contaminants. And when you have gauged all the work that would involve, depending on the size of the house, just the mere thought of engaging yourself in such a daunting task might exhaust you. So what’s a person to do?
Stay where you have been evacuated to until the city you want to return to is deemed safe again. Safe from contaminants, pollutants and other life threatening entities that need to be rid of. For the reason you were told to evacuate in the first place is so that your life could be spared.
And since your precious life has been spared, would it not stand a better chance of remaining that way if you are safe from those contaminants and discomforts. It is known that Mayor Nagin wants his city to return to normal, but for that to happen, shouldn’t parts of the city that have been affected be made more liveable than they are presently?
Contamination caused by overflowing toilets and sewerage lines with fatal entities such as Ecoli and a host of other deadly bacteria that the city is yet to cleanse itself of. Apart from that, what about other factors, such as living quarters and other forms of normalcy.
And if your home has been destroyed, where would you live? Say your place of employment has also been destroyed by raging flood waters, where would you work? Woud you think that by returning to a section of a city that has nowhere to shop, work or live the way you once lived before the storm struck, you would truly feel as if your life has returned to normal?
Not quite so. Unless of course you are the type who is willing to tolerate the intolerable. For if you returned to your home that is still standing, you would first have to make sure all that accumulation of flood water is gone from the abode, and then you would want it to be clean.
Something which might not be as an easy enough task as it sounds. For that would involve ridding your home of those fatal contaminants. And when you have gauged all the work that would involve, depending on the size of the house, just the mere thought of engaging yourself in such a daunting task might exhaust you. So what’s a person to do?
Stay where you have been evacuated to until the city you want to return to is deemed safe again. Safe from contaminants, pollutants and other life threatening entities that need to be rid of. For the reason you were told to evacuate in the first place is so that your life could be spared.
And since your precious life has been spared, would it not stand a better chance of remaining that way if you are safe from those contaminants and discomforts. It is known that Mayor Nagin wants his city to return to normal, but for that to happen, shouldn’t parts of the city that have been affected be made more liveable than they are presently?
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