[strange1]

My mom was on a feeding tube for two years. She shopped and spent the holidays with us.

I regularly see people on oxygen at the malls and in fact my grandma was on axygen this past Labor Day.

What kind of meds can't be taken on a 70 mile bus ride?

People are going to die

Apparently more decidely so if you happen to be a patient at St. Rita's.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Well, if I were them, I know what defense I'd use. Something about a certain high-ranking politician leaving someone to drown and getting off scot-free.

[Guenevere]

From what I'm hearing now, there's much more to this story.

Judge Napolitano (FOX) was talking about this with John Gibson....

..We all know Gov.Blanco and the Mayor waffled, waffled, waffled bigtime whether to order mandatory evacuations.

...and only did so at the very last minute...

...From what Judge & John said yesterday, this nursing home called the relatives of these older folks and told them they could come get them.

The relatives declined.

The 'home' decided to hunker down and there were nursing home workers who were there with the residents and who died along with them.

These residents weren't abandoned by the workers.

It is a hard call.

Here in Florida, a very excellent assisted living home, bussed their residents all the way to Atlanta!!!.....and it took long long hours to get there and these folks are not spritely.

Another home decided to hunker down....and had brought in extra medical supplies and food and workers to sit through the night with the residents.
..the manager of this facility lost the roof of her own home while she spent the night with the residents.

My opinion....the owners of this home are the first scapegoats so that those who want to blame someone can look to them.........

..rather than Blanco and Nagin...where the real blame belongs!!!

[PLMerite]

Apparently during one of the previous New Orleans-threatening storms they did evacuate nursing home patients by bus and what should have been a relatively short ride turned into 12 hours in the heat and several of the folks did die because of it. And of course, that storm missed New Orleans.

It's a struggle between caution, liability, good faith...and lawyers.

[Gvl_M3]

What I want to know is that if this nursing home can be charged with the deaths because they failed to evacuate, doesn't it fall in line that Nagin and Blanco can be charged with deaths since they failed to evacuate?

Of course someone will then want to arrest Bush also. :(

[uncbob]

The REAL problem ( which is the real problem for ALL the problems) is that these type facilities are in a city where it is KNOWN a Cat 4 or 5 will devastate the area

They should not be there

That city should not be rebuilt in the areas that are under water PERIOR