Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - Kingwood WV
< previous day | archives | next day >
Dawn Paddle, Hoosic Reservoir, Cheshire MA, September 7, 2010
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Kingwood WV
Walmart Supercenter Store #4372, 100 Walmart Dr, Kingwood, WV 26537 - (304) 329-4020
- Reasonably level parking
- Verizon cell phone service- good signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - none but 1x dialup speed is reasonable
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Tags: RV Information
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