Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities

TheRealJRad said
I think it’s a “if I can rationalize it, I can make it make sense, if I can make it make sense, then I can cope with it” mechanism

Seems ultimately self defeating in these sorts of circumstances though

Ultimately these incidents usually have the same answers as ‘why did Katrina hit us’

And similarly that question can be used as a distraction from the actual answerable questions like ‘why did Katrina impact us so much’

TheRealJRad said
Unrelated, I was thinking about the derails last night - it’s almost like a real life trauma response, isn’t it? If we were all sitting around the dinner table or something, little tangents of levity would start breaking off as everyone starts to process what happened.

Once the bulk of information is out there, news comes in drips and drabs
I think the derails are the idle chatter that happens waiting for more news