Tag: Hurricane Katrina

‘Why New Orleans? A Meditation on the Hurricane’ (2005)

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Hurricane Dorian… en route to Florida?

I wrote this for Chalcedon’s print magazine the year Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans. With Hurricane Dorian hammering the Caribbean, it seems a suitable time to revisit this.

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/why-new-orleans-a-meditation-on-the-hurricane

From ancient times people have always tried to blame other people for natural disasters. They haven’t stopped doing that: hurricanes are always someone’s fault. Wouldn’t happen if we signed that climate treaty! Etc.

But insurance companies call these “acts of God,” and they’re not wrong.

Why does God permit such calamities? Why does a hurricane strike here, but not there? King Solomon in all his wisdom didn’t know. So what he said was this: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” (Ecclesiastes 12: 13)

‘Maybe Lying Newsman Wasn’t Lying’ (2015)

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In addition to being a disaster, Hurricane Katrina, lo those many years ago, was notable for the astonishing number of untrue stories that came out of it.

Untrue news stories, “reported” by alleged professionals.

https://leeduigon.com/2015/02/06/maybe-lying-newsman-wasnt-lying/

Oh, how they longed for that stadium to be filled with dead bodies! How they licked their lips with anticipation, as they waited to “report” that half the people in New Orleans had drowned!

The term “fake news” hadn’t yet been coined, back then. But fake news abounded. Along with fake reporters.

TV Noozie Warns: ‘Your Kids Are Dead, Too’

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Again we wonder if they surgically remove your brain before they let you be a TV noozie. Here’s a Fox News weatherman issuing an apocalyptic warning about the hurricane: “This moves 20 miles to the West, and you and everyone you know are dead… because you can’t survive it… and your kids are dead, too.”

Remember the nooze coverage of Hurricane Katrina? There were gonna be at least 10,000 dead! (Not even a little bit close.) The people in the Silverdome are gonna go berserk and start eating each other! (They didn’t.) New Orleans is finished! (It wasn’t.) Not to mention the noozie putz in the rowboat making like it’s the Great Flood, until a couple of people waded past him in galoshes because the water was only ankle-deep.

Oh, yeah, noozies, we believe you! Especially when you tell us that a hurricane is gonna kill us all, unless our government signs this U.N. treaty and then they’ll be able to stop the hurricanes, blah-blah…