[dirtboy]

Like I said, easier said than done when you dont live in the city and you are looking from the outside in

That's the kind of attitude that gets a lot of people killed in a disaster.

You don't complain about how hard it is. You work it out. 2,000 school buses coming from the metropolitan area would have sufficed. And send them upstate to school gyms.

Even if they don't have bedding or much food, they're safe until FEMA can truck in supplies.

That isn't that difficult to work out - if you give a damn.

[cgk]

2,000 school buses coming from the metropolitan area would have sufficed

AGREE.

[NittanyLion]

Agreed - the city of New Orleans and State of LA elected incompetent leaders, and now are directly paying for it, some with their lives. It's tragic.

[Tiger Smack]

You don't complain about how hard it is. You work it out. 2,000 school buses coming from the metropolitan area would have sufficed. And send them upstate to school gyms.

And take these people WHERE exactly? How do you feed them? How do you give them safe shelter?

Feel free to fill out a application for mayor of New Orleans, Govenor of Louisiana, or the head of FEMA and save us all with your day-after extensive hurricanr plans

[kenth]

"That isn't that difficult to work out - if you give a damn."

But they were just dumb, poor, crazy, etc.; they don't count.

[jpsb]

"You work it out. 2,000 school buses"

Would have gotten 80,000 (or more) people out. How many are now trapped in the rising waters? 80,000 (or less). Hmmmm, wonder why noboby thought of that on Sunday.