AMEN! And the fact he used them to get them to the Super Dowm with NO FOOD AND WATER makes it even worse. That displays a recognition of the fact he had them at his disposal! They should have been used to get those people out of the city to other cities for temperary shelter where food and water is. I STILL can't get over the fact that the idiot was herding tens of thousands of people in the Dome for what he KNEW would be 2 to 4 days, and he knew there were NO provisions there, and didn't leave and kind of authority structure or medical personnel there. HOW DO YOU NOT THINK OF THAT when you're mayor??? That's so bonehead obvious Forrest Gump would have thought of it! "My Momma always said, 'life is like an evacuation'. You're always gonna need food and water when you get were yer' goin'".
Well, somebody thought of it - ten trucks of food and water were delivered on Sunday the 28th. I think the National Guard brought them because their guys on the ground reported that there was no food. The city had told people to bring their own food and water to last 3-5 days. (Nice plan...)
Here's another tidbit: "Sunday night, the military delivered 360,000 meals-ready-to-eat to the 30,000 people using the Superdome as a shelter. Hot food was served Sunday night and Monday morning by workers with the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office." Source
As always, none of this is meant to excuse the city's poor planning, but it's something to keep in mind when people like Jesse Jackson say the Superdome was "like the hull of a slaveship." That's 12 MRE meals per person, and two hot meals, and the evacuation of the Superdome began on Wednesday, the 31st. And yes, the Federal government helped with that.