1 Dead in Attic

I read the blog "1 dead in attic" by Chris Rose. it wasnt really about what was going on as the hurricane was happening, but more as it was over and people were getting back to their life. i think this is a blog that maybe would relate to a lot of readers, in a way he says, his wife questions his decisions to go looking for something, but he doesnt know what. He should stay in the safe part of town but something is drawing him to the other side. Most of us know what thats like, when someone tells us dont, you want to even more.

as he gets farther along he says "I drive around and try to figure out those Byzantine markings and symbols that the cops and the National Guard spray-painted on all the houses around here, cryptic communications that tell the story of who or what was or wasn't inside the house when the floodwater rose to the ceiling. In some cases, there's no interpretation needed. There's one I pass on St. Roch Avenue in the 8th Ward at least once a week. It says: "1 dead in attic."

"It's spray-painted there on the front of the house and it probably will remain spray-painted there for weeks, months, maybe years, a perpetual reminder of the untimely passing of a citizen, a resident, a New Orleanian."

this is just the kind of thing that these people had to live with seeing everyday, as if they didn't go through enough. They have to now drive by these homes and see spray-painted across a house "1 dead in attic". that is terrible.

He then says, and i have to agree, that there should have been some other kind of coding so that people wouldnt have to be reminded of this everyday.

Then he comes up with some other good points that really make you think... "I wonder who eventually came and took 1 Dead in Attic away. Who knows? Hell, with the way things run around here -- I wonder if anyone has come to take 1 Dead in Attic away. And who claimed him or her? Who grieved over 1 Dead in Attic and who buried 1 Dead in Attic? " It at least makes me think, this would just be awful. How long did this person stay in this attic? who found them? why were they in the attic? why didn't they leave? who actually left them there?? just so many questions...