Landrieu Video at link.
How I Did It
With a little help from a lot of friends, a doctor turned an abandoned K Mart into a field hospital for victims of Hurricane Katrina
(MONEY Magazine)
By Ellen McGirt
November 1, 2005
(MONEY Magazine) – BY DR. BILL CASSIDY, 48, BATON ROUGE AS TOLD TO ELLEN MCGIRT
“We had no way to predict what people coming out of New Orleans were going to need. My physician group didn’t have emergency preparedness responsibilities, so we made a lot of this stuff up as we went along.
The old K Mart we were to use had been abandoned for about eight years. It was filthy. There was no electricity, no air conditioning and no windows.
We had doctors and nurses step up to design the facility. I asked my friend the insurance guy to be the volunteer coordinator because insurance guys always know everyone. Around 150 people from two churches showed up with mops and brooms to help clean. An electrician got the power up in 24 hours. We created four to five wards holding 30 cots each.
Trucks arrived with $5 million worth of medical supplies, but no packing lists were included. We had I.V. bags but no poles. We had cots but no crash cart. Our volunteers found EKG machines, printers—someone even got a new Honda delivered. Physicians showed up from as far away as Iowa. By the time patients arrived, we had beds, lights, generators, computers and volunteers to play with children, provide transportation and reconnect families.
We saw fatigue, dehydration, emotional trauma and illnesses like diabetes and asthma made worse by the patients’ experience. The shelters wouldn’t take newborns, so we took mamas and their babies. It was the most amazing thing. We never got the volume we braced for, but we were ready—in 26 hours.”
No wonder the DNC pulled her ad buy!
lolz
Never publicly demand answers to questions if you do not know the answer already.
Of possible interest to you.
Omigod, -BURN- was the first thought in my mind.
Whoops there goes another campaign adviser.
lol. Poor Princess Fiona.
I’ve heard of shooting yourself in the foot but this is like sticking your head in the business end of a Howitzer and yelling FIRE !
Great billboard material.
The other question is: Where was she?
Looks like she got her answer.
I have to wonder how much they spent on the signs.
Oh, I won’t be able to resist sending this to my lib uncle.
Sweet, so sweet.
As I remember it, Bush called for FEMA to get ready DAYS ahead of Katrina hitting - and was ready to roll - but LANDRIEU REFUSED to let them in for days! (they couldn’t come in with the permission of the state’s governor.)
My guess was that she didn’t want Bush to get any credit for helping - both her and Ray Nagin, mayor -
At least Nagin is where he belongs now. (I hope to see MANY more get their due justice)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/08/ray-nagin-prison_n_5782502.html
#WhereWasMarysBrain ?
Begs the age old question of Mizz Mary —don’t ask a question you don’t already know the answer to.” What a burn!
When your opponent is destroying him/herself, do not interfere! ;-)
Now I know why Louisianans refer to her as “Senator Honey Boo-Boo”. It fits perfectly.
That’s going to leave a mark.
Funny how she was asking him where he was when they hit, the guy wasn’t even in politics when those hurricanes hit. What a buffoon.