Dr. Kevin Stephens Sr., in charge of the special needs shelter at the dome, described the Superdome and a nearby arena as a health department's nightmare.
``These conditions are atrocious,'' he said. ``We'll take trucks, planes, boats, anything else -- I have to get these people out of here.''
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I have to get these people out of here......
because they are TRASHING THE PLACE!
Have they ever heard of picking up their own damn TRASH?! Pouring dirty water in the back of the toilet would have made them flush. No one else had electricity in other areas either, DOCTOR but they weren't shooting, stabbing, raping or stealing.
Not if the sewer flooded..even if the johns weren't stopped up .
We went to a rarely used home over Christmas and after one day we had to call roto rooter..Had the sewers been flooded in my area..it would not have solved the problem.
As I understand it, the entire NO sewage system was out of commission because of the storm. Nothing was going anywhere, even assuming they had some sort of bucket and deep enough standing water to scoop.
As for picking up their trash -- pick it up and put it where? Stack it in neat piles? Maybe there was a janitorial supply closet and they could have had one of the armed evacuees shoot off the lock?
Exactly what I've been saying over and over again since at least Thursday. Maybe Wednesday. Seems like months already.
At the startup of a FEMA response, I would be upset if I knew they were watching TV. It was NOT FEMA'S responsiblity to determine the status and location of problems; it was city & state's duty to have command & control of emergency response. The federal responders at this time was a logistics response to get people, equipment, and supplies as directed by the LA command center which apparently was non-functional, possibley non-existent