Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM
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Red, Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM, January 23, 2009
At least I got my laundry done
My noon arrival at Rockhound was too late for me to find an open site with hook-ups. I might have done better coming to the park first and then going back to Deming to do laundry. Maybe. As is often the case at this park, there are several people drycamping waiting to play musical sites in the morning if someone leaves.
Night camp
Site 4 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Find other references to Rockhound on this website
- List the nights I've camped here
- Go to the Rockhound State Park website
- Get a Google map of this area
- Check the weather here
Disaster and the Failure of Authority
Disasters are almost by definition about the failure of authority, in part because the powers that be are supposed to protect us from them, in part also because the thousand dispersed needs of a disaster overwhelm even the best governments, and because the government version of governing often arrives at the point of a gun. But the authorities don't usually fail so spectacularly. Failure at this level requires sustained effort. The deepening of the divide between the haves and have nots, the stripping away of social services, the defunding of the infrastructure, mean that this disaster—not of weather but of policy—has been more or less what was intended to happen, if not so starkly in plain sight.
The Uses of Disaster Rebecca Solnit, Harpers.org, September 9, 2005