I live in New Orleans and I just recieved news that the people who live at my apartment complex that couldn't get out are being choppered out from the rooftop of our place. Many probably have not been able to eat or drink anything for days. These are my neighbors and alot of them probably died.
There are still lots of people in the city at the Morial Convention Center that are dehydrating and starving to death. They will be pulling drowned dead bodies out of my freaking city for months to come.
I can rattle off to you how everyone made mistakes on this one. I know this because I know my city and I live there. No one person screwed up here, a ton of people made mistakes to make this catastrophe 10x worse.
Examples:
Mayor Nagin should have moved the city transit buses to higher ground before the storm and we would have never had any of these problems. He left them stationed at one of the lowest spots in the city and thats why they are waiting for buses to take people out because all of New Orleans' own buses are underwater.
Governor Blanco still hasn't called for Congress to do a special session in Louisiana. A whole lot of the state's house officials haven't even returned to Baton Rouge yet from vacations. She to my knowledge still hasn't even called the National Guard of Louisiana into action to go to the city.
Alot of people back home own boats and a whole lot of them (hundreds and thousands) white, black, and french/cajun were trying to volunteer on Tuesday to take their boats into the city to help people but armed gang members and crack heads were already shooting and killing cops. They would not let the civillian volunteers go into the city to pull people out because rescue workers were being killed by armed idiots. They had to pull coast guard choppers out because they were being shot at by AK-47's and high powered rifles stolen from stores which believe it or not can take down of those choppers if it hits it in the engine area.
No one was ready for this. That goes from Bush all the way down to the local officials in New Orleans. The Chief of Police of New Orleans Eddie Compass hadn't even returned to the city as of 2 days ago when I left.
At least let them fish out the dead bodies before you start trying to blame a Democrat or a Republican for something that everyone dropped the ball on.
Is this forum really so pathetic that the admins are allowing stupid posts trying to blame Bush, black people, or whoever else for this catastrophe while people are still dying?
Please grow up and show some compassion and condolences to those of us who just lost everything they own and put your personal agendas aside for just a couple of days.
There are still lots of people in the city at the Morial Convention Center that are dehydrating and starving to death. They will be pulling drowned dead bodies out of my freaking city for months to come.
I can rattle off to you how everyone made mistakes on this one. I know this because I know my city and I live there. No one person screwed up here, a ton of people made mistakes to make this catastrophe 10x worse.
Examples:
Mayor Nagin should have moved the city transit buses to higher ground before the storm and we would have never had any of these problems. He left them stationed at one of the lowest spots in the city and thats why they are waiting for buses to take people out because all of New Orleans' own buses are underwater.
Governor Blanco still hasn't called for Congress to do a special session in Louisiana. A whole lot of the state's house officials haven't even returned to Baton Rouge yet from vacations. She to my knowledge still hasn't even called the National Guard of Louisiana into action to go to the city.
Alot of people back home own boats and a whole lot of them (hundreds and thousands) white, black, and french/cajun were trying to volunteer on Tuesday to take their boats into the city to help people but armed gang members and crack heads were already shooting and killing cops. They would not let the civillian volunteers go into the city to pull people out because rescue workers were being killed by armed idiots. They had to pull coast guard choppers out because they were being shot at by AK-47's and high powered rifles stolen from stores which believe it or not can take down of those choppers if it hits it in the engine area.
No one was ready for this. That goes from Bush all the way down to the local officials in New Orleans. The Chief of Police of New Orleans Eddie Compass hadn't even returned to the city as of 2 days ago when I left.
At least let them fish out the dead bodies before you start trying to blame a Democrat or a Republican for something that everyone dropped the ball on.
Is this forum really so pathetic that the admins are allowing stupid posts trying to blame Bush, black people, or whoever else for this catastrophe while people are still dying?
Please grow up and show some compassion and condolences to those of us who just lost everything they own and put your personal agendas aside for just a couple of days.
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