Thursday, September 01, 2005

 

More hurricane

D's first day "at work" today (though the pupils don't arrive until Monday). Hopefully it's all gone swimmingly, and we might meet up for a drink this evening (as P isn't with them tonight).

I've been thinking about what I wrote about the hurricane yesterday. It's becoming clear that it was a greater disaster than I'd initially realised, and I'm feeling somewhat guilty about what I wrote in the first paragraph. I suppose that this rather underlines the importance of what I later said about God seeing all tragedies, and not judging them on size. In fact, it underlines the fact that we, as humans, cannot judge, and can only gift up our prayers to God, who will know, and understand. I'm sorry if I sounded rather judgemental in the first paragraph, but am feeling suitably chastened, and will probably preach on the subject on Sunday morning. Come along, if you like, it's in Stambourne church, in Essex (search on "Stambourne, CO9, Essex" on google maps) at 0930am.

After some thought, I've decided to add this blog to a blog aggregator. The most appropriate one seemed to be this one, listing UK God blogs on Quantum Tea. Don't know if it will lift the numbers of people visiting or not. If you do visit, I'm always interested to hear your views: please feel free to use the comment facility below.

Oh, Jo's started pulling herself upright from sitting this morning, so it's probably a good thing that we lowered the base on her cot yesterday so that she won't be able to throw herself out of it if she stands up. We're trying to live by the wise dictum from one of our midwives: "accidents happen because babies do things for the first time."

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# posted by MikeCamel @ 6:19 pm
Comments:
Yes, it does indeed seem that things are worse than we predicted and that the impact is spreading to other parts of the country that no one anticipated. We're actually seeing trickles of "refugees" here in the Washington, D.C. area such as I've never seen in any other hurricane (except the ones that hit N. Carolina and southern Virginia).

I think the worst part of all of this is that the federal government's delayed reaction and ineptitude has made things much worse than they need to be. Although I have deep philosophical reservations on the proper role of the government in humanitarian endeavors, I will say that they've been uncharacteristically slow in responding to Katrina and its aftermath, especially compared to other similar storms (which occur with obvious regularity at this time of year, so I cannot see how lack of preparedness can be excused).

At any rate, I really enjoyed your perspective on this from the other side of the proverbial "pond" and would like to compliment you on your blog (your music selection is truly impressive; I wish I had the time to keep up with my classical and jazz compilations). As an information security engineer, I would especially be interested in any advice or knowledge you can impart on hardening/securing Debian Linux, a subspeciality that I think far too many IT specialists are ignoring.

Keep up the good work!
# posted by Blogger liberranter : 5:48 pm
 
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