It's Been a Weird Day

I've just been fascinated by Katrina. It's just so...overwhelming.

Last night I was knocking back between the stations watching the City Of New Orleans evacuate, and I couldn't help thinking. "I've never, ever seen this happen before. A whole huge city just get up and go."

"Sorry," Said the Mayor, "Don't care where you go, but you can't stay here." And most people listened. So the people who couldn't leave, cause they were poor, or infirm went to hang out in the SUPERDOME...and of course, with sustained winds of 140 mph, the roof started to rip off!

For the rest of the day, I was convinced that the coolest video in the world could be had, in showing the massive roof ripping off the SUPERDOME, and then flying across the city- and impacting into a high-rise with *ahem* quite a lot of shock and awe. Only THERE WAS NOBODY OUTSIDE TO FILM IT! In the end, I'm happy that it was only a couple of vents that gave way, causing some 15-25 foot holes, and making those huddled inside a little more uncomfortable and damp, but alive.

Still, imagine the coverage, if the roof had been ripped off whole, and was sent flying into the stratosphere like a Flying Saucer! Impact predictions! Daring news-chopper piloting! The inevitable impact shot from ten or fifteen different angles, in slow-mo-hi-def-video!

At least I'm glad I didn't miss that.

Well, there's a football game on tonight, and I'm off to watch that instead. It's too hot in L.A. to think about things for too long...except how great football is.