I was on a line in Kmart yesterday with a woman who's husband works with a cleanup company.
She said, he couldn't go in until the area is secure. Then she said she probably won't see him for a year.
Judging from the PR grovel fest on TV, the Red Cross is looking for a PR opportunity.
A way they can serve a $1000 soup kitchen with $25,000 worth of "administrative costs".
Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
We got some thin’ we both know it,
We don’t talk too much about it
Ain’t no real big secret, all the same,
Somehow we get around it
Listen, it don’t really matter to me
Baby, you believe what you wanna believe
You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have
Kicked you around some
Tell me why you wanna lay there,
Revel in your abandon
Honey, it don’t make no difference to me
Baby, everybody’s had to fight to be fre e
You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee
No baby, you don’t have to live like a refugee
Baby, we ain’t the first
I’m sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now this ain’t real to you
It’s one of those things you got to feel to be true
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have
Kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped,
Tied-up, taken away, and held for ransom
Honey, it don’t really matter to me
Baby, everybody’s ha d to fight to be free
You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee
No, you don’t have to live like a refugee
Baby, you don’t have to live like a refugee
Blank the red cross can't even collect blood right.
Someone please give reason why they have kept out the ham radio people who have traditionally provided communication links when no one else could.
It sounds like deliberate something by the inept Homeland Security people.
Maybe not. If they bring the food in without getting the people out then many may just return to their neighborhoods to either try to pick up their lives if home is there or move into a shantee nearby with their loot. This would cause even more deaths due to the likelyhood of disease or the possibility of one of the anticipated near future storms hitting NO again resulting in drowning of anyone who stayed behind.
Everyone needs to get out first then we can all argue about the timetable for residential return and if they are ever allowed to stay to resettle.
People should be brought out of NOLA, not kept there. Water is the essential that must be brought to those still stranded, until they can be moved safely -- so many people don't understand that in an extreme emergency water is the essential (most people won't live more than 3 or so days without any), while food in such a situation is, yes, non-essential, more of a comfort than a necessity. Of course no one wants to be hungry, but people (unless they have certain medical conditions such as diabetes) can live for weeks on water or juice, etc. I'm not saying for a moment that everyone still in NOLA doesn't need ample food as soon as possible, just that Homeland Security is probably quite right in not wanting to set up a meals operation in NOLA that might well keep people there in such terrible conditions, when what's really needed is to bring them out.
Her fears are well founded.