WWL Updates as they come in on Katrina
03:36 PM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet
3:34 P.M. - (AP) The evacuation of Superdome refugees was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt hotel. They were move to the head of the line to be evacuated -- much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome for days.
The 700 had been trapped in the Hyatt just like the others, but conditions were considerably cleaner, even without running water, than the unsanitary crush inside the dome.
3:14 P.M. - St. Bernard Parish officials say that FEMA has not called them yet...five days after the storm.
3:07 P.M. - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. David Vitter said FEMA's efforts to deal with the hurricane have been completely ineffective, and he called the federal government's response a failure.
"I think FEMA has been completely dysfunctional and is completely overwhelmed, and I don't know why. This situation was utterly predictable," said Vitter, R-Metairie. "It seems like there was no coherent plan, which I don't understand because this precise scenario has been predicted for 20 years," he said.
If true, not good in a sense. No better way than to get a class war going, real good, with the hothead gangbangers, rapists and looters in the vanguard. They can, and will, whip up the crowd into a frenzy. John Edwards would at least feel real at home.
Somebody needs to direct Vitter to the evacuation advice posted by NO linked below. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475714/posts