Post-Apocalypse
Posted : September 8, 2005 at 5:36 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
That a corpse lies on Union Street may not shock; in the wake of last week’s hurricane, there are surely hundreds, probably thousands. What is remarkable is that on a downtown street in a major American city, a corpse can decompose for days, like carrion, and that is acceptable…Welcome to New Orleans in the post-apocalypse, half baked and half deluged: pestilent, eerie, unnaturally quiet.
— NYTimes Editorial, “Macabre Reminder: The Corpse on Union Street”
- Anand
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Following observation is interesting!
I couldn’t’ stop making this comparison..
Inches of rain in new Orleans due to hurricane katrina… 18
Inches of rain in mumbai (July 27th)…. 37.1
population of new Orleans… 484,674
population of mumbai…. 12,622,500
deaths in new Orleans within 48 hours of katrina…100
deaths in mumbai within 48 hours of rain.. 37.
number of people to be evacuated in new Orleans…
entire city.. wohh
number of people evacuated in mumbai…10,000
Cases of shooting and violence in new orleans…Countless
Cases of shooting and violence in mumbai.. NONE
Time taken for US army to reach new Orleans… 48 hours
Time taken for Indian army and navy to reach mumbai…12hours
status 48hours later…new Orleans is still waiting for relief, army
and electricity
status 48 hours later.. mumbai is back on its feet and is business is
as usual
USA… world’s most developed nation
India… third world country..
oopss… did i get the last fact wrong???
Posted by: Rajesh Ranjan at September 9, 2005 @ 6:17 am