Happy Anniversary to the Big Easy

08/29/2006 Dr Wingnut General Comments Off on Happy Anniversary to the Big Easy

There are four stages of denial:

  1. It won’t happen.
  2. If it does happen, it won’t happen to me.
  3. If it does happen to me, it won’t be that bad.
  4. If it happens to me and it’s bad, there’s nothing I can do to stop it anyway.
Erick Holdeman, director of emergency managmement for Seattle’s King County, in Time, Katrina: One Year Later, 28 August 2006