Ummah Gris-Gris

It was always going to happen that with all the overblown talk of this, that, and the other crime, or accident, or slightly extreme bit of weather as 'disasters' and 'catastrophes' that nature would shut those mouths good and hard, but I can't help but take it a bit hard that it was New Orleans that bore the brunt. It's a place I've read up on since I caught the Beau Soliel bug (monsieur Doucet is fine, I'm sure you're relieved too), and a place I really wanted to go. The Voodoo and Hoodoo people are part of the international magic community, my people, and with the Cajun and Zydeco music, the Mardi Gras and history of the old city, the culture of the whole area is magic, in it's own very special way. It's a witchyness borne of the mixture of cultures, the landscape, the history of the peoples there. The Magic of the Place, not specific to any one group, but made of all of them. Believe in believein', as they say. These are my people, and it stings like mad that so much of that has been lost.

The scale of this seems overwhelming. An area the size of Britain affected by the hurricane, an entire modern city in the western world submerged, people left without food and clean water by a government who likes to tell the rest of the world how wrong it is all the time. I just hope to hell they got all the survivors out before the alligators from the swamps came in.
Well I hate to have to tell you this, but compared to what's coming, it's nothing. The handling of this incident has been a disaster, that's the appropriate use of the word in this situation. They had plenty of warning, time to evacuate and prepare. When what is going to happen happens, they will have eight hours to evacuate the entire East coast of America up to 20km back, all the way from Canada to Mexico. An area hundreds of times the size of the area affected by Katrina.

To my witches, you know what to do.
To the rest of you, any suggestions as to how we demand as human beings that the American government does not simply let hundreds of thousands of people just die in an event that makes the Asian Tsunami look like sandcastles in the breakers are welcome.

La Palma Megatsunami from http://http//www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami.shtml

"Scattered across the world’s oceans are a handful of rare geological time-bombs. Once unleashed they create an extraordinary phenomenon, a gigantic tidal wave, far bigger than any normal tsunami, able to cross oceans and ravage countries on the other side of the world.
Only recently have scientists realised the next episode is likely to begin at the Canary Islands, off North Africa, where a wall of water will one day be created which will race across the entire Atlantic ocean at the speed of a jet airliner to devastate the east coast of the United States. America will have been struck by a mega-tsunami...
The growing concern is that the ideal conditions for just such a landslide - and consequent mega-tsunami - now exist on the island of La Palma in the Canaries. In 1949 the southern volcano on the island erupted. During the eruption an enormous crack appeared across one side of the volcano, as the western half slipped a few metres towards the Atlantic before stopping in its tracks. Although the volcano presents no danger while it is quiescent, scientists believe the western flank will give way completely during some future eruption on the summit of the volcano. In other words, any time in the next few thousand years a huge section of southern La Palma, weighing 500 thousand million tonnes, will fall into the Atlantic ocean.
What will happen when the volcano on La Palma collapses? Scientists predict that it will generate a wave that will be almost inconceivably destructive, far bigger than anything ever witnessed in modern times. It will surge across the entire Atlantic in a matter of hours, engulfing the whole US east coast, sweeping away everything in its path up to 20km inland. Boston would be hit first, followed by New York, then all the way down the coast to Miami and the Caribbean."

This is going to happen. The people on La Palma can't be saved. The people in America can be. Can there be any excuse for being unprepared?