We find ourselves at the rising tide of machinery and the setting sun of god
And when we see that day is done no longer will we trod
We will fly and zoom and twirl on machinery galore
Until we will no longer see grass or forest floor
No longer to return to nature when the old ones die
Mechanization will be our salvation this is the government’s cry
And when the day of earth’s demise finaly comes at last
To its destruction we can only look to our irresponsible past
Rain makes me happy while others hang their heads
Rain makes me smile when to others it brings dread
When hearing thunder rolling my face begins to grin
I love to see the lighting and the trees blow in the wind
I lie in terror
of what passes by
storms across my window
and through the august sky
lives are being broken
tears are being shed
for mother nature’s terrible wrath
while I am safe in bed
and while I lie I wonder
will the roof hold on
or will it tear from the walls and shatter on the lawn
and let the wind come into bed and carry me along
but for now I will just lie here
and wonder all night through
of storms across my window
and what they will do
Ok so this is going to be my outlook on the problem of New Orleans. New Orleans is a catastrophy waiting to happen. The last time it was hit by a hurricane many were killed and many more lost their homes. That was Katrina. Now we just recently had Gustav. While this was not the hurricane of the century as many thought it would be, New Orleans could easily be hit by a hurricane of greater force sometime in the near future. One would think that, because of the poor funding given the Corps of Engineers to create levys strong enough to withstand the hurricanes, most people would leave New Orleans. This may be a hard fact to deal with for some, but the reality is that when you screw with mother nature you eventually get screwed. The problem right now is not really any one persons fault. New Orleans was set up for disaster since the french first settled the colony. Now I am certainly not an expert, but I can see what we are doing to “solve” the problem right now, and I believe that eventually sometime in the future New Orleans will experience another catastrophy of even greater proportions than Katrina. If people who live in the southern Louisiana area decide that they want to stay I can only predict that they will experience more of the same destruction.
