Katrina: Depot Explodes Over Lawless New Orleans
James Joyner
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Friday, September 2, 2005
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An explosion at a chemical depot has added to the misery in New Orleans. No word yet on whether it was related to the Hurricane, a criminal act, or sheer coincidence.
Depot Explodes Over Lawless New Orleans (AP)
An explosion at a chemical depot jolted residents awake early Friday, illuminating the pre-dawn sky with red and orange flames over a city awash in corpses and under siege from looters. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Vibrations from the blast along the Mississippi River and a few miles east of the French Quarter were felt all the way downtown. A series of smaller blasts followed and then a cyclone of acrid, black smoke.
To jittery residents of New Orleans, it was yet another fearful sight in a city that has deteriorated rapidly since Katrina slammed ashore Monday morning.
Incredible.
It is amazing that the American fondness of passing laws of every imaginable sort, can’t quite understand that there has to be a means and a will to enforce those laws.
this is a really bad thing that is happening to the United States right now and it is totally freaking me out.