In the Event of Catastrophe...

Is this terrible for me to think? That in the event of a great natural force like Hurricane Katrina, it's simply about survival. You do everything you can to save everyone of course, but it should be understood that the weak and the elderly are most likely to be injured. That's just logical isn't it? Survival of the fittest. You can thank Darwin for that.

I am not saying you leave those people to die and save yourself. Absolutely not. You do EVERYTHING you can to save everybody. But knowing that there is a limit of what can be done, some will be left to their own devices. I absolutely think that the defenseless should be first priority. But for everyone that you cannot save ahead of time, for those that had to suffer through the storm, isn't it common sense that the elderly, the sick, the very young, are less likely to survive?

So was it surprising that the people in the nursing home didn't survive?

There is great sadness to what Katrina has left behind in its wake, the harm it has done to so many lives. And it's heartbreaking to think that there was a community of sick elderly patients who were too sick to escape. They were not able to survive the storm.