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This is for Shep who doesn't believe there are federal people helping out. This article about Air Force assistance just came in my email:

August 31, 2005

Air Force supports FEMA; helps Hurricane Katrina victims

WASHINGTON - Units and people from across the Air Force are supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency and helping victims of Hurricane Katrina from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Helicopters from the 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., flew to Jackson Miss., Aug. 30 carrying Federal Emergency Management Agency assessment teams to areas affected by the hurricane.

A C-130J transport aircraft from the 403rd Wing at Keesler AFB, Miss., flying out of Asheville, N.C., returned home to the base delivering supplies to the base hospital.
The 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell AFB, Ala., geared up two C-130s, aircrews and aeromedical evacuation people to help move people.

A C-5 Galaxy from the 60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis AFB Calif. and a C-17 Globe Master III from the 305th AMW, McGuire AFB, NJ transported tanker airlift control elements and contingency support groups to Gulfport and New Orleans International Airports respectively. Another C-5 from Travis helped search and rescue teams from California get to the affected area.

Fifteen HH-60s helicopters and crews from the 347th Rescue Wing at Moody AFB, Ga., and the 16th Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field., Fla have been positioned near the affected area in Jackson, Miss., and crews were credited with saving stranded survivors of the hurricane.
Additionally, Critical Care Air Transport teams and an obstetrics team from Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, helped patients and expectant mothers evacuate Keesler AFB, Miss., on Tuesday. The patients and pregnant women were evacuated to Wilford Hall.
For more information, contact the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs office at (703)-695-0640.

"This is for Shep who doesn't believe there are federal people helping out."

I have been listening to Shep most of the day what I have been hearing him say is that (at the time of his report) no one is telling all those folks around him where to go. And no one was getting them any aide. THEN AFTER HIS REPORT help started arriving. and they got some of the worst cases out.