[WoodstockCat]

How is that bizarre logic?

First, just about every time a helicopter has landed people have started to rush it. I understand as much as I can from afar that people are desperate but there has to be some order and steps to distribution of food and water. Let's say they had let off some pallets of food and water at the convention center a couple a days ago and asked for people to share it. How would that have gone for the most part? How many poeple would have died being run over to get to the distribution point? Or as it is being passed around the realization in the crowd is that some are not going to get any.

Did you see ANY indication from those folks that they were thinking about the younger ones first and not themselves? I lived in Miss for eight years, I understand the heat, humidity, etc. One of the worst things that was done was just to have people milling around in the open especially during the middle of the day on an concrete overpass.

[NonValueAdded]

There was a post earlier from a DJ trapped at the convention center. The way he described it, there WAS much more order at the CC. They had people lined up women and children first,m then elderly. They tried to help with the supply drop only to be pushed back at gunpoint. Instead, stuff was being dropped from an overpass with most of it being rendered unusable. You can understand how the SD disorder made the troops react the way they did, but there is at least one report that says women and children WERE considered at the CC.