a bit of hurricane post-script by je / September 5
photo by Clay Franks
So today, we’re posted up in Memphis, TN, because back home, shit’s still grimy as hell. Only about 2% of the city has power, so the city is pitch black at night. They put in effect an 8pm curfew, giving them free range to lock anyone they can catch up. Border patrol is everywhere, and it looks like my hood is about to get hit up on that tip.
The city is largely thrashed up. Most of my friends and family have trees down in-front-of or IN their houses. Lots of ripped up roofs, felled traffic signs and power lines and the weirdest thing about it all is how no one across the country knows about how badly the city was hit and how many people were actually affected by it. Georgia Bush stopped through to survey the damage, though. He hopped off the plane at the Baton Rouge Metro Airport and looked around and declared it a disaster area and left without actually making it to any of the sites where evacuees were being housed or where the storm was gnarliest. On second thought, it isn’t the least bit surprising that the rest of the country has no clue what’s going on in one of its largest port cities when the shining Knight of the White Camelia can’t even be bothered to leave the fucking airport to see what’s really up.
Tour of My Nieghborhood from jon rogers on Vimeo.
Also, one of the guys over at TBC (http://www.tbcparty.com) got some pretty telling footage of our city and some of our neighborhoods.
