Glad you like to help storm victims. < / sarcasm > If the busses can get in you can get out. The busses are only for the Superdome crowd, not for the other people in the city. So what are the rest of the people to do? And what about the people who have already left NO. Where are they to go or stay? no one can afford to live in a hotel for very long, especially if their job was lost with the storm. What would you do? Just sit there with no food or water and no sign of rescue. Would you expect the government to come in and help you because you are unwilling to try to help yourself? I would not stay in a crowd where people are being raped, where rescuers are being shot at by the victims, etc. You cannot expect the nanny state to look after you in a natural disaster. That's the first thing you are taught in disaster preparedness. No one will be there to help you if you do not evacuate. Sure, leaving immediately after the storm would be impossible, but that doesn't mean you sit there and say poor me, I can't do anything unless the government helps me.
Since the aftermath of Camille in '69 I have lived in Houston. I have left town for every hurricane above a Cat 1 that has headed this way. I stayed for Alicia (Cat 2) in '83 because it popped up so fast and didn't look that bad. That will never happen again.
Although more people should have, there were many people in New Orleans who lacked the means to evacuate.
The busses are only for the Superdome crowd, not for the other people in the city. So what are the rest of the people to do? And what about the people who have already left NO. Where are they to go or stay? no one can afford to live in a hotel for very long, especially if their job was lost with the storm.
If there were easy answers for these issues it wouldn't be a catastropic event now, would it. I don't know. We've already given to the Salvation Army and will be working with our church to house those folks we can. It's the biggest freaking disaster in the history of our country doc, lots of people had died and lots more probably will.
I expect my government to do what it can ... remember "promote the general welfare". They'll screw up a bunch, but they'll try.
What are you doing besides deriding people who have been devastated because they're not doing it like you would?
"The buses are only for the Superdome crowd, not for the other people in the city. So what are the rest of the people to do?"
Well, isn't it obvious? They should shoot down the helicopters that are trying to rescue them.
A caller to Laura Ingraham's show this am had a good idea -- to use the closed army bases for longer term care for those displaced.
Rape?