Relief Efforts

[Sweet_Bitch]

Anyone else think the response time has been painfully slow? Been reading alot today about it and it seems like we aren't doing much for the people down there. Could be wrong, just what I've read in the news...

 

[Lestat]

i just posted about that.

its criminal how little bush has done from a federal standpoint to help with the situation.

 

[spongebob]

i agree. at first i thought they were doing ok but not now. the national gaurd, all armed services should immediately deploy that way. and food should be dropped in for those people.

 

[Lestat]

i agree. at first i thought they were doing ok but not now. the national gaurd, all armed services should immediately deploy that way. and food should be dropped in for those people.

agree 100%

 

[Sweet_Bitch]

Agree w/ both of you....this is part of one of the articles I read:


Storm victims were raped and beaten, fights and fires broke out, corpses lay out in the open, and rescue helicopters and law enforcement officers were shot at as flooded-out New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday. "This is a desperate SOS," the mayor said.

Good lord!!!

 

[spongebob]

Agree w/ both of you....this is part of one of the articles I read:


Storm victims were raped and beaten, fights and fires broke out, corpses lay out in the open, and rescue helicopters and law enforcement officers were shot at as flooded-out New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday. "This is a desperate SOS," the mayor said.

Good lord!!!

thats fucked up. to get raped or beaten after the storm.

 

[Sweet_Bitch]

And then there was this:


Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, saying they were nearly out of food and power and had been forced to move patients to higher floors to escape looters.

We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us," said Dr. Norman McSwain, chief of trauma surgery at Charity Hospital, the largest of two public hospitals.


They had to call the press!!! I realize it's a mess down there, but it's been a few days. When is Bush going to step up and do something??

 

[HumorMe]

Agree w/ both of you....this is part of one of the articles I read:


Storm victims were raped and beaten, fights and fires broke out, corpses lay out in the open, and rescue helicopters and law enforcement officers were shot at as flooded-out New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday. "This is a desperate SOS," the mayor said.

Good lord!!!

The desparate SOS should have been sent out Monday instead of letting it degenerate to what it is now.

Bush declared the gulf coast a disaster area before the hurricane hit.

Doesn't martial law start when the state asks for it? I really don't know but if that is the case, the local and state level authorities are to blame.

 

[spongebob]

And then there was this:


Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, saying they were nearly out of food and power and had been forced to move patients to higher floors to escape looters.

We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us," said Dr. Norman McSwain, chief of trauma surgery at Charity Hospital, the largest of two public hospitals.


They had to call the press!!! I realize it's a mess down there, but it's been a few days. When is Bush going to step up and do something??

i hope bush catches hell over this and looks pityfully inept.

 

[Sweet_Bitch]

The desparate SOS should have been sent out Monday instead of letting it degenerate to what it is now.

Bush declared the gulf coast a disaster area before the hurricane hit.

Doesn't martial law start when the state asks for it? I really don't know but if that is the case, the local and state level authorities are to blame.

From what I'm reading it sounds like there's been two major problems. One, no one knew it would be THAT bad so they weren't prepared. (True?? I don't know.) Two, everyone expected help to come much faster. (Not the best assumption, but hey...look how we came to the aid of NYC.)

 

[HumorMe]

From what I'm reading it sounds like there's been two major problems. One, no one knew it would be THAT bad so they weren't prepared. (True?? I don't know.) Two, everyone expected help to come much faster. (Not the best assumption, but hey...look how we came to the aid of NYC.)

Again, local and state authorities were not prepared and should be blamed. I thought they would have at least had a plan in place and if they did it must have gotten wet and smudged.

They are just now asking the feds to intervene because they are unable to help themselves and are just now realizing it.

 

[spongebob]

Again, local and state authorities were not prepared and should be blamed. I thought they would have at least had a plan in place and if they did it must have gotten wet and smudged.

They are just now asking the feds to intervene because they are unable to help themselves and are just now realizing it.

yea its hard to believe how slow things work. i know its hard to organize and execute but it needs to become a national emergency, not just a gulf coast emergency.

 

[Sweet_Bitch]

Again, local and state authorities were not prepared and should be blamed. I thought they would have at least had a plan in place and if they did it must have gotten wet and smudged.

They are just now asking the feds to intervene because they are unable to help themselves and are just now realizing it.

For a city located below sea level on a coast how could they have not had a better plan!?!?! I think you're right, they either didn't have one or it got swept away in the flood waters