Day 28:
What we call “our lives” is a glamour thrown up to keep us from reaching them. We put so much stock in feelings that hold no meaning at all. Sadness, loneliness, anger, despair, happiness, hope: These are the great fictions you torque upon, which is as useful as building a city on a swamp. None it can hold because you can only distort the truth for so long. It is in your nature to fight for them as it was in our nature to build in a place that cannot survive. Do you see how we replicate loss, how all of it is a temporary disbelief in the reality that none of this will hold.
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Sunday, August 28, 2005
Just after midnight, at 12:40 AM CDT (0540 UTC), Hurricane Katrina reached Category 4 intensity with 145 mph (233 km/h) winds. By 7:00 AM CDT (1200 UTC), it was a Category 5 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph (282 km/h), gusts up to 190 mph (310 km/h) and a central pressure of 902 mbar.
In a press conference at roughly 10:00 AM CDT (1500 UTC), Nagin declared that "a mandatory evacuation order is hereby called for all of the parish of Orleans." "We're facing the storm most of us have feared," he told the early-morning news conference, with the governor at his side. Following Nagin's speech, Governor Blanco stated that President Bush called her "just before" the press conference and said that he was "concerned about the [storm’s] impact" and asked her "to please ensure that there would be a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans."[8] Katrina was expected to make landfall overnight.[9] Shortly after the meeting, at 10:00 AM CDT (1500 UTC), the National Weather Service issued a bulletin predicting "devastating" damage.
At 12:00 PM CDT (1700 UTC), the Louisiana Superdome was opened as a, "refuge of last resort," for those residents that were unable to obtain safe transport out of the city. 20,000 people entered the Dome. The Louisiana National Guard had delivered three truckloads of water and seven truckloads of MRE's to the Superdome, enough to supply 15,000 people for three days. 4444 Army National Guard and 932 Air National Guard are deployed (5,376 total).
President Bush declared a state of emergency in Alabama and Mississippi, and a major disaster in Florida, under the authority of the Stafford Act.
Photograph:
Katrina Memorial
There is a blank space where a name should be, an erasure of what is does not make it not true. You know this. A lack of memory, an unknowing, a forgetting, a not believing... none of these change reality.
You think there is something to fight for, and that is the problem. Time is a problem.
This is always happening. This is the story of your life. There is no other story. Each detail is exact.
It is always Saturday, August 28th, 2005. And the storm is coming. And there is no deviating from this path.
It is exactly the moment you are in now, and there is no deviating from this path.
Tell me when you began to believe that this illusion was "live."
Time appears linear because you are on a small arc on an endless circle. It's so small it appears flat with a beginning, a middle and an end, like a story. A past, a present, and a future.
But none of these things exist.
I need you to believe in everything.
If not, we will be here until you do.
In order to change the past, we need to change the future by unhooking from all we thought we knew before.
It only takes one line of code to change the whole program.
You only have to locate one line of code.
Plague Journal:
8.26.2020
We are a species conscious enough to know our planet is dying.
What that has done to us on an emotional level is create a massive amount of fear and aggression, an animalistic response to threat.
We are not going to survive and we understand this at a fundamental level. We were given all we needed here, and we failed.
And no amount of blood in the street is going to change that fact.
We can kill each other first or we can wait till the planet dies. But either way, this cycle ends.
The universe cares not one bit how we are recycled into further energies. It is only us who thinks being human is so precious that somehow we were invincible.
In all future timelines, the story of humanity is a cautionary tale. When we hear it...
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What did we learn from Katrina:
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