Beymer Water Recreation Park, Lakin KS
Camped at Beymer Water Recreation Park, Lakin KS, May 4, 2010
Beymer Water Recreation Park is an older County park about 4 miles south of Lakin KS offering a few sites with electric and water. It's quiet and clean with several stocked fish ponds enjoyed by the local residents, hatted and feathered.
Beymer Water Recreation Park, Lakin KS
- Beymer Water Recreation Park is an older County park about 4 miles south of Lakin KS offering a few sites with electric and water. It's quiet and clean with several stocked fish ponds enjoyed by the local residents, hatted and feathered.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
- Locate Beymer Water Recreation Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
- Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - Beymer Park, Lakin KS
- Image: Fish Ponds, Beymer Park, Lakin KS, May 3, 2010.
- Monday, May 3, 2010 - Beymer Park, Lakin KS
- Image: Becalmed, Beymer Park, Lakin KS, May 3, 2010.
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