Slow Learner

[Ray Easton]

On Thursday, Apr 26, 2007, at 10:10 US/Central, Daniel Harper wrote:

> Oh yeah, some of it is so evocative of Katrina that Pynchon almost 
> seems
> prophetic.
>
> On Thursday 26 April 2007 09:11, you wrote:
>> did you think of Hurricane Katrina, lo these many years later?
>>
>>
>> I "A hundred yards away, one by one,
>> like giant insects, army helicopters were taking off to see what was 
>> left
>> of Creole." d.

For us (we had undamaged shelter and plenty of food and water), the 
very worst part of being stuck in the city after The Thing was not the 
lack of utilities, nor the heat, nor the toxic vapors wafting through 
the air that made us gag, nor the mobs of looters... the very worst was 
the constant aural assault of the helicopters!  We joked at the time, 
hearing on the radio that people were firing at them -- "wish we had a 
rifle".

Ray