Onlookers

I find it sad that David Morris has come to calling people “total assholes” for their bewilderment of what has happened to Iowa City. I can attest to being one of the people who walked the neighborhood around the Alpha Chi Omega house the day after the storm. I left my current apartment in Coralville to see the damage around my old apartment, simply because I can’t sit inside my place until the officials have given the all clear, that’s completely unnatural. I had to go see, and for my I had to see if there was any way I could help. I don’t think that Mr. Morris understands that, for those who didn’t go through the storms directly and have their homes destroyed, once to come upon the scene, you are in a completely different world. I guarantee that if you would have asked the couple staging the picture to help, they would have offered their help, yet you chose to sit back and whine about it later. Being one of the so called “gawkers”, you don’t know how to help once to see that. I was asked to help, and I pitched in no questions asked, and I am very glad I did. If Mr. Morris still needs help with any clean up projects my time and effort are willing and able. I have space at my apartment for any one you has been displaced. If Mr. Morris, Anomie House, or any one else needs help, please let me know, I would love to volunteer my time.

Note: This blog was published in the Daily Iowa Letters to the Editor on Wedensday, April 19th, 2006