Posted on 09/07/2005 11:39:33 PM PDT by msnimje
Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?
Acess to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders.
The state Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.
The Red Cross has been meeting the needs of thousands of New Orleans residents in some 90 shelters throughout the state of Louisiana and elsewhere since before landfall. All told, the Red Cross is today operating 149 shelters for almost 93,000 residents.
The Red Cross shares the nation’s anguish over the worsening situation inside the city. We will continue to work under the direction of the military, state and local authorities and to focus all our efforts on our lifesaving mission of feeding and sheltering.
The Red Cross does not conduct search and rescue operations. We are an organization of civilian volunteers and cannot get relief aid into any location until the local authorities say it is safe and provide us with security and access.
The original plan was to evacuate all the residents of New Orleans to safe places outside the city. With the hurricane bearing down, the city government decided to open a shelter of last resort in the Superdome downtown. We applaud this decision and believe it saved a significant number of lives.
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Seems a little odd.
Are we to understand that Major's super secret source is the Red Cross' FAQ page? LOL. And the MSM continues to push the lie that Bush withheld food and water?
Because they were smarter than the mayor and governor.
Man, as the facts keep comming out Bush looks like a saint and the local Gov't looks like they killed a bunch of people ?
Governor Blanco just doing what the DNC told her to do.
I should have skimmed the article first. The Red Cross refuses to maintain shelters in NO if there is anything greater than a cat 2 hurricane likely to hit. They new the dangers of a levee failure.
I should have skimmed the article first. The Red Cross refuses to maintain shelters in NO if there is anything greater than a cat 2 hurricane likely to hit. They knew the dangers of a levee failure.
I have a real problem with this..
I keep hearing that the Superdome was supposed to be a "staging area" to get people out of the city..
Yet those people were kept in the Superdome by force after the hurricane had passed..
Maybe authorities were afraid they would all go back into the city and their homes, I don't know.
But authorities made no effort to provide for them, and failed to actually use it as a "staging area" to evacuate people from New Orleans until it had become a virtual house of death..
Bathroom facilities were inoperative..
People weren't even allowed out to get some fresh air to breathe..
What was wrong with bringing in several hundred porta-potties and setting them up outside?
Why couldn't food, water, and medical stations be set up outside?
Why did it take so long to start actually evacuating?
I have a feeling there will be H**l to pay..
More racist garbage is about to come out.
I seem to remember that there were issues of funds sent to the RC about four years ago, and it took six months for those funds to be utilized to the 9/11 effort. Further, I seem to remember in the mid-1990s, several scandals amoung the ranking RC execs obsconding with funds and sitting on MAJOR salaries. Making big money in a FOR PROFIT is a good idea. But hypacritical BS really twists my shorts.
BTW, I have WORKED on an RC project, as an independent software consultant, and I've have observed some underhanded shinannigans that I thought was... nevermind. Actually, yes, BS!
OLD MAN IN THE BANK: "Now, what's it gonna be, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? 'Cause if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm gonna be in motion..."
How compassionate
I saw her today say something like "Yes, the Mayor of New Orleans ordered a Mandatory Evacuation. But it is up to the Governor of Louisiana to do that, and that would be me."
As my mom says, its a horror movie version of Eva Peron in the Swamp.
Now they seem to be trying to get everyone out of town but the looters and arsonists. Meanwhile the people who live in the dry areas are prevented from getting into town to secure their valuables. New Orleans continues to be a backassward city in a backassward state.
Well put. I agree.
Can you imagine these two trying to run a military operation? My military combat commander friends are livid.
Yes indeed. This is the same woman who told the President of the United States she needed 24 hours to think about Federalizing the relief effort on Friday. At the end of her 24 hour "pondering period" she told him NO!
Someone posted a vanity asking if this was a trap... its starting to look like it. Why would she 24 hours? You confer with her cohorts?
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