How many days were people on the I 10 over pass? How is it they were claiming to be dying of food and thirst?
I don't know anything about the I-10 overpass. The overpass to which I was referring was the I-110 onramp in Biloxi. A man whose house we helped to fix had to run up the onramp to escape the flooding. He's 70-something, and something hit his leg (he's not sure what) but when we met him, his leg was completely bandaged up. But even so, he was carrying all of the possessions out of his house, wheel barrel by wheel barrel, all by himself. We told him to stop working, we would come and do it for him, but he insisted on helping us. He'd stop every once in a while for the swelling in his leg to go down, then he'd go back to work. We had the manpower and more importantly the tools to gut his house. It would have taken him forever on his own.
Opps, sorry I'm rambling now :) This man was really an inspiration to me.
If this were a platoon of Marines I wouldn't really care that much. They have been trained for this and would have found a way out anyway.
All this is besides the point. How many of those people have been able to replace the car they lost or their houses or their jobs.
Yeah, every disaster has people who abuse the system by working some angle. New Orleans has more than most. Now what about the other 300,000 who have lost not only everything they ever owned, but even their means of livelihood?