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The Good Side of the Second American Civil War

It Could Happen Here

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Hurricane Katrina and the Super Dome

Louisiana national guard colonel thomas baron showed up at the super dome five days after katrina made landfall. His convoy included a refrigerated 18 wheeler and three doctors to work as a makeshift morgue and process the dead. He arrived expecting at least 200 bodies, he found six. Four had died of natural causes, one from an overdose and the other from a suicide. No one had been killed inside the super dome. There was very little evidence of any violence there at all.

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