[dirtboy]

So leave 'em to die.

Man, sometimes you think you know your fellow freepers and then a thread like this happens.

[Ronzo]

So tell me dirtboy, how many died because this police chief did his job? 3? 150? 2,000,000? How about ZERO?

They were bringing supplies INTO New Orleans as soon as Blanco decided it might be time to let the supplies come in.

How is wandering down Rt 90 to the WEST of New Orleans going to improve these people's chance at survival? Unless they can catch a gator with their bare hands and drink swamp water, there's no reason for them to be going WEST out of New Orleans, since there's even LESS OF A CHANCE for them to find food & water in the bayou's than there is in the French Quarter....

Of course the stores & homes in Gretna MIGHT have had SOME usable food & water...but I doubt the good people of New Orleans would have been content with just that....

What you think they were going to do, walk all the way to the Astrodomoe?

THINK ABOUT IT! EVEN IF THE BRIDGE WERE OPEN, WHERE WERE THEY GOING TO GO????