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I watched the coverage over-my-shoulder in my office from Sunday on. People that were turned away from the Superdome that was filled on Tuesday were directed to the convention center which they filled Tuesday night. Water was shutoff on Wednesday morning on. They had a live feed on Friday morning from there. No one had any water or food still by noon Pac. time Friday when I left the office. I saw it. when I got in Friday night I saw the relief had been made. Those people went 2 days with out food and water.

My gripe is that life-saving is job #1 and the relief effort was mis-directed.

I will never forget the video of the woman that died in her wheel chair while news crews drove in and out of the city freely.

"No one had any water or food still by noon Pac. time Friday when I left the office. I saw it."

I will tell you in all sincerity that that simply is not true. I'm pinging Burbankkarl to this because he knows how to link pictures and I don't. He has posted several pictures showing water and food at the Convention Center well before Friday.

I found a url to a picture showing a Blackhawk dropping off food and water on 1 September.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050902/480/ny21709021944