Beauty sound effects.

Me, too sarah connor.

I used to think a lot about the "perfect storm" when I lived there, because I was living right by the river, and the "worst case scenario" was a hurricane hitting the gulf and travelling up the Mississippi. This didn't happen that way, and still completely destroyed the city. If we had still been living there, though, in the same place, we could have totally stayed put, and it would hardly have touched us. Bizarre.

It was such an insecure feeling, living right next to the "Mighty Mississippi", but a few feet lower. It's extraordinary to imagine that something like this happened, and that was one of the few places that wasn't flooded.

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Wow. It still gets me. Frankly, I don't know how the people that I know in that area faired as well as they did. They all feel a bit guilty about it with the devastation around them. It's crazy.

Brilliant. It just goes to show how well-done information design can inform and enlighten us, and even change the ways we view ourselves and the world (the New York Times web graphics for the "class" story they did a few months back had that effect on me).