[Sprite518]

OK folks I may just not understand this.

Why is it so logistically hard to load up some C-130's with water and food, and parachute it in by the Super Dome? They can get the supplies from Walmart, Publix, Kroger etc... Just clear a little area where the choppers land. I use to see it in the military we would drop vehicles, artillery. Why can't we do food?

Perhaps we are just looking at the efficiency of Government, and it does not matter how much taxes you pay. Oh one more point I am sure the terrorist are taking notes...

[Rokke]

"Why is it so logistically hard to load up some C-130's with water and food, and parachute it in by the Super Dome?"

Air dropping supplies is actually one of the least efficienct means of distributing them. Once they leave the aircraft, you have no idea where they are going to land. In an area like NO, it is likely most would land in flood waters and become contaminated or lost.

[zot]

Why is it so logistically hard to load up some C-130's with water and food, and parachute it in by the Super Dome?

C-130 air-drop isn't the answer in this situation. If the supplies aren't on pallets, they will scatter along the path of the aircraft for a mile or so. If they are on pallets, the pallets will kill anyone they land on.

Helicopers are the answer in this situation, and they have been sent to the Super Dome several times, but the mob wouldn't open up enough for them to land so they had to drop the supplies from about 10 feet.