Monday, November 12, 2012 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM
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Daybreak, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, November 11, 2012
Drycamped
There's no room at the inn. It's Festival of the Cranes season. Thanks to a leaky radiator I managed to wrangle a prime spot from Billy to boondock out in the bushes behind the shed for the duration.
Night camp
Drycamped - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM
- This is a basic, small Mom & Pop RV Park with full hookups.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
- Locate Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Click for Google street view
- Check the weather in San Antonio NM
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