Surreal
October 23rd, 2007
I started watching some of the national coverage, and it’s bizarre to see the mundane stops in our weekly routine as the backdrop to major disaster. I find myself occasionally forgetting that we are IN the place I’m watching on television. But then I see Katie at Qualcomm, and there’s IKEA in the background, and I think, “oh, I need to go there next week to pick up some coffee cups for Tay’s new apartment.”
And speaking of surreal:
The local CBS station has a reporter, in full fire gear, in front of a burned home. The have the homeowner on the phone, talking to the reporter as he sifts through the rubble, holding up unscathed, framed photos he’s found. She tells him that she called in because she saw him reporting earlier, and could see her home going up in flames in the background. He continues to search for her non-charred belongings while she thanks him.
