Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - Harrah's Convenience Store, Laughlin NV
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Catching Some Rays, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
The five Great Blue Heron pairs nesting on this cliff spend their day leisurely tending the nest and each other. What a privilege it was to be able to watch them for a day.
Night camp
Site 17 - Harrah's Convenience Store RV Parking, Laughlin NV
- Good Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Locate Harrah's Laughlin Convenience Store on my Night Camps map
- 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