Billmon: The Color Line

An anonymous commenter over at Moon of Alabama has posted a link to one of the most compelling personal accounts of the post-Katrina apocalypse that I've read yet.

It's the tale of a pair of paramedics -- and staunch union activists -- from California who were in New Orleans for a professional conference when the hurricane hit, and who (for whatever reason) couldn't or didn't evacuate in time.

There story gives us a glimpse of the courage and ingenuity of ordinary working people -- black and white -- left to fend for themselves as the water rose, the wealthy fled (including some of the same civic "leaders" now planning the mother of all urban renewal projects) and government disintegrated: