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I just got a breaking news that 25-30 bodies have been found in a St. Bernard parish nursing home.

We don't know the whole truth here. In prior posts there was discussion that the staff did all they could but couldn't get that last ones out. On the surface I get a gut reaction like you, but there is more to it than what we know now.

We don't know the whole truth here. In prior posts there was discussion that the staff did all they could but couldn't get that last ones out.

News report on FoxNews was that the attendants did exactly what you say. They got all they could, and were told that evacuation resources would be coming to get the rest of the patients.

Likewise, 100 people in a warehouse had been told transportation was coming to evacuate them. It didn't come.

Somebody was "making promises" and didn't follow through. They know who they are, and I hope they feel guilty and repent. But for sure, it wasn't the Feds.

On the surface I get a gut reaction like you ...

My anger is still welling up.

Follow up. Story has been told both ways.

Sunday afternoon, Dr. Bertucci said, he checked with St. Rita's staff to see why. He said the owner, Mabel Mangano, told him she had five special-needs patients, and an ambulance hadn't come to pick them up. Officials said she also told them that she had spoken with the families of patients who said it was okay to stay behind.
"There was frustration over not having her patients out; a false sense of security because they'd never flooded before; they had generators and stuff, and it [an evacuation] tends to be traumatic for some of these special-needs patients," Dr. Bertucci said.
"She asked me if we were upset," Dr. Bertucci said. "I said I'm not on the council, I'm concerned about the patients."
Dr. Bertucci said he told Ms. Mangano, " 'We've got two buses and two drivers that'll take you anywhere you want to go. Do you want the buses?'
"She said no."
Ms. Mangano is believed to have stayed with the patients, since no one has heard from her since the storm. Attempts to reach members of her family or relatives of nursing home residents were unsuccessful.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/katrina/stories/090805dntexkatrita.2ee8c38.html