Yeah truly heartbreaking and there are a few FReepers(?) posting in this thread on how these poor folks should know exactly where to go because it is "painfully obvious" what should be done and "painfully obvious" where they should all go. I wonder sometimes how some of these naysayer types manage to navigate a keyboard to type? You would think mouth-breathers like that would have trouble with simple manual skills.
Really feel for the children because they had no choice on evacuation -- they depended on their parents.
Honestly believe some folks stayed because they had looting planned all along but believe they are in the distinct minority of folks needing help. Looters of guns, etc., can drown for all I care.
Elderly, children, and a lot of folks that thought this was a false alarm since so many hurricanes had passed by need help now. Whether poor or well off, they are in the same boat now with no home to return to in the city.
I heard a reporter today asking a couple with a 3 year old child, who didn't even look conscious, if they knew where they could go, or what to do. They said, "no!". The camera crew had given them a small carton of chocolate milk and she was using the coolness of it as a cold compress on her child's face. The heat, no water or food.
I've heard the same thing you have from some of our FReepers (?)...yes, makes you wonder about them. I was sickened last night on another thread by what I was hearing. Some of them are known FReepers who love to be cruel, but I didn't recognize a few of them.
Anyhow, good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise (my mother's saying and so fitting today), those that are coldhearted will stay off these threads and find something else, or another victim to use, to amuse themselves.