Anyone hear from Trillium

[lumindx]

He was in the path of the hurricane in Mississippi. Cant get through on the phone.

Trillium, post if you are ok pls.

[Trillium]

I'm alive! Very tired, somewhat sweaty.... but in one piece.

All our power is out, and most likely will be for a few weeks. I'm posting from the offices of the Mobile Press Register, the sister newspaper to the one I work at, about 60 miles to the East of Biloxi, Ms.

Katrina was devistating to the coastal and low lying comunities where I live, as well as miles and miles on either side. Any homes that were near beaches or waterways are just gone. We had aproximatly a 25 foot surge and waves pounding onto the coast.

It's been a long few days... Monday morning around 7am we started driving around in the storm, photographing wherever we could gain access too that wasnt flooded. So many people had to take refuge in there attics from floodwaters that were coming into there homes. I'll try and post some of this pics we have taken.. you may have already seen some of our images already though.

I've personally never seen anything like this, whole communities are simply gone from the map. Bridges are destroyed, homes are gone, power is out, and the death count is starting to rise.


I'll try and post more info later...


William Colgin "Trillium"

[Trillium]

a few more pics

[Clive]

Glad you're ok Trill, much <3

[Atlien]

Great to hear you are ok, ive been glued to watching CNN coverage, pretty insane and unfortunate. :hmm:

[Lunac]

Man Mother Earth can really be a bitch sometimes :/ I'm glad to hear you're ok dude.

[Aza]

Wow Trill :( I'm glad you're alive ... good luck with everything down there ... wow ...

[Gionnelles]

Its just amazing how much devastation this has caused. Does anybody know what they plan to do about New Orleans? I heard 80% of the city is flooded, and huge sections are just gone.

[Dardatheus]

Wow man, I'm really glad to hear you are okay.

It's a nightmare down there, with the contamination of the water that place just turned into a big bowl of chemical waste :(

Gionelle, I heard they might just "move" the city, and New Orleans as we know it will no longer exist....it's utterly unfathomable to me. Best of luck to you man, sincerely. It's a rough situation but I trust that humanity will endure despite all difficulty and tragedy.

On a less depressing note, those are some AMAZINGLY powerful pictures. As a journalist I'm sure that this whole event was a bit double sided for you; a once in a lifetime oppurtunity to capture some of the most incredible, shocking, and tragic images and situations you will ever witness. Some of those pictures are the epitome of the powerful emotion intrinsic in the human condition. Again, amazing shots man.

Good luck, and glad to hear you are alright :thumbsup:

[Gionnelles]

What I find terrible beyond the obvious loss of life and destruction to peoples lives is the incredible loss of history if New Orleans is destroyed. Although I have never had the opportunity to visit there, it is replete with tremendous amounts of history and to lose all of that is tragic.

[Vendrix]

And yet my lack of faith in humanity once again plummets into the abyss. I wish I could say that I find it hard to believe that people are looting stores and shooting cops in the wake of a natural disaster of this magnitude - but I can believe it. It's not like the 'scumbag' gene is unique to the Florence & Normandy streets of L.A (Rodney King riots) or NYC on 9-12-01 (a man posing as a Firefighter looted a store at Ground Zero) or even when the Red Sox win the World Series.

People = shit, to quote Slipknot.

[Elsington]

Glad you are alright Trill :thumbsup:

Sucks that the southern coast got hit so badly :shame: I've seen the news some, and those pictures you had posted really show a lot of the destruction. It's a tragic loss that will take a long time to repair. Just glad to see you are still up and going :)

[Gionnelles]

Humanity is capable of such great and terrible things. While there are those who pillage and destroy, there are others risking their lives to save trapped people and repair in the wake of the devastation.

All you can really do is wake up each morning and ask yourself which person you are going to be.

[Elsington]

Unfortunately there will always be those kind of people no matter what you do =/

I think of it this way: If there wasn't so much evil and blatant hatred in the world, would we appreciate the good as much? Because amidst the man made destruction and looting, there are just as many selfless people, if not more, with the desire to help. I know there was a whole crew of people from Indianapolis that took time out of their lives (jobs, school, family, etc.) to come down to *I think* Missisippi to clear debris and help overall in the restoration efforts, while living in a tent for a few weeks. I wish they showed more of that instead.

It's just sad to see that people are still compelled to take advantage of others in the wake of a regional tragedy like that :hmm:

[Dardatheus]

I agree with Gio and Els on this. The bottom line, I think, instead of "People=shit" is "People = Flawed". Every person has their flaws, their stressors, their limits, and their courage. We all have a different focus, a different, subjective, perception of the world and indeed the perception of value itself.

For some this perception places human life, happiness, and love for ones fellow man at the top of ones value list.

For others it is simply about themselves-personal gain, power, opurtunism, greed; but inevitably this impulse is acted upon out of fear. Fear of death, fear of insignificance, even fear of compassion or love. Self-centered acts of violence and greed, such as shooting police and looting in the wake of such a tragedy, are almost always a result of a deep fear, a meekness that only such people posess. Their bold inconsiderate actions a result of utter weakness.

The people whose courage makes them selfless, who seek to aid those in trouble, possibly risking their own life in the process, those are the people who are strong. Those are the people that more often than not aren't rich and powerful, but they possess an internal fire that couldn't be quenched by all the hurricanes to ever stir the oceans of earth.

There is a balance of the two in all of us, I suspect, but some rise to the nobel challenge or fall through the vaccuous pitfall. I honor those whose courage drove them selflessly into harms way, and I pity those who are so weak as to show such cowardace and fear of life.

/e's .02

[lumindx]

Is there anything you need Trill? Anything we can do?

[Trillium]

Thanks Lumi, but we are pretty cut off down here at the moment.

My home survived so things aren't as bad for me as for soo many people who lost everything, many of them friends or co-workers. Nobody has power and most communities don't even have water. I'm just glad I don't live in New Orleans.

.... Trill

[Gionnelles]

I was watching the CNN online coverage of the situation. Its horrifying whats going on right now. The worst natural disaster to hit the US and the pictures they are showing look straight out of a 3rd world country during wartime. I know a number of military friends/co-workers who are being called to go help, and I wish them the best there. This will be a major thing to recover from, and I can only hope aid arrives to help people as soon as possible.

[Shardmoon]

If you read this Trill, give Lumi a call. You could call me instead, but I refuse to give out my number unless I know you will talk dirty to me.