Exactly what part of 'disaster area' do you not understand?These idiots were warned beforehand that a hurricane was coming and that they must evacuate. Their presence has only served to endanger more lives, including their own, during the rescue phase of this disaster.
This whole scenario, starting with 'a hurricane is coming' to 'last holdouts arrested and removed', is reading like a cartoon from Mad Magazine.
As you have fondness for the old lady who was dragged from her home, and remembering that there is no electricity, water, or sewage that is working, exactly where does this fine old lady distribute her bowel droppings? Sanitary, isn't it???
And BTW, it doesn't seem to me that you are seriously bothered by $100 million dollar lawsuits!!!!
When people editorialize my comments to say something other than what I did say, I realize they've conceded the agrument, and I say thank you and better luck next time.
I will add this. I saw several others interviewed tonight, who also refuse to leave. The subject of toilets came up. Flushing is no problem. They didn't say how, but I imagine they just dump a pail of water in. These old people are a lot smarter than you , I suspect.
Doesn't it bother you that millions of brave young American men died to prevent this kind of stuff from happening?? I know that's one of the things my uncle, and my very best friend died for.
That you throw their ultimate sacrifice aside so easily disgusts me.
The hurricane is over.
Their presence has only served to endanger more lives, including their own, during the rescue phase of this disaster.
I have not seen the slightest evidence of that, and you and no one else on this thread has provided that. The evidence that has emerged since the hurricane departed is that it is the authorities that endangered lives, by allowing lawlessness and rampant looting, by the NOPD's abandonment of duty and even engaging in their own looting in the first critical days, by the city government's failure to use available resources, including city and school buses, to evacuate people who wanted refuge, by the city and state's refusal of aid by the Federal government and from private organizations and citizens, by shutting down hotels and driving people onto the streets, by keeping at gunpoint in the city people who were attempting to evacuate on foot, and now by keeping commercial suppliers out of areas that are in fact habitable, if only the authorities would get out of the way, and fulfill their minimal duty, which is to keep public order.
... and remembering that there is no electricity, water, or sewage that is working, exactly where does this fine old lady distribute her bowel droppings? Sanitary, isn't it???
I lived for weeks after the Ice Storm of '98 without power, water, heat, (in the coldest part of a Maine winter)with trees and heavy icicles falling for weeks, onto houses and roads. To travel one drove over downed power lines, which hopefully weren't energized. Flushing the toilet required hauling in water...so you didn't do that too often. You make do. It looks like a lot of people in New Orleans are willing to make do, if only the authorities would let them. As for sewerage, you have cited no information that their sewage systems aren't working...even if their toilets flush to a nonfunctional treatment center, at this point it will hardly make any difference, given the condition of the water. If they had to, and if the police and city administration would let them, they could bring in chemical toilets.
And even if their living conditions aren't ideal, where do you want to put them? Oh, the Astrodorm? Many New Orleaners no doubt feel much safer at home than with the Superdorm evacuees.
Realistically, once people abandon their houses in that city, they should expect to return and find it looted and destroyed, if they are even ever allowed to return.