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Hurricane Katrina One Week Later
By Lance Winslow
Eco Bags I fully support the notion of reusing the same shopping bags for groceries. Week in and week out people fill up their supermarket trolleys and then proceed to pack the items they have bought into plastic bags at the checkout, once they have been paid for. The majority of these plastic bags only make two trips in their lifetime. One is to the supermarket from the suppliers and the other is to the customer`s home where they tend to end their life prematurely in the bin. If Eco Bags were used instead they could make hundreds of trips in their lifetime. The bags could be left ion the boot of the car after they have been unpacked ready to be used at the next grocery shop. All it takes is a little thought and a slight change of routine and the Eco Bags could become regular features down at the supermarket. Concerns about the effect that plastic bags have on the planet should be enough to prick the conscious of people`s minds. If more and more people started to use the Eco Bags when they went shopping, at least this would be one way that the planet could be looked after.
Well let us start before the Hurricane. The President of the United States in an unprecedented move preempted the Category V Hurricane and told everyone get out. One million people left New Orleans and nearly a million more left the gulf coast. Imagine if we had to rescue all of them too? The President?s administration in calling on local officials to issues mandatory evacuations and then himself going on National Television and telling people to get out probably save 150,000 people. How have we done after the storm hit? After one week there have been 8.5 million meals served. Thirty Thousand folks have been rescued by helicopter. The 200,000 who stayed in New Orleans are now safe or in the process of being taken out of the city. Many still refuse to leave their homes and do not wish to be saved. The looters have been quelled. The big levee break has been shored up and the smaller breaks will be fixed soon or used to help get the water back out. Forecasters say you have about a week or so of non-Hurricane weather to get something done. We have monies and support pouring in from Foreign nations and the former presidents joining in the volunteer efforts. We have 13,000 active military troops helping. We have a spontaneous mutual assistance system growing and other cities volunteering to take folks in, send in supplies and send in additional assistance. I think we are doing pretty damn good in the after math of a Category FIVE Hurricane. What do you think? 
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