Choppers are slow flyers and require refuelling stops or an escorting tankers. Most choppers cruise at about 60-100mph and take time to get there. Many are on the way now from where they were dispersed to avoid the storm.
Transport planes? Private Cessnas? THERE'S NOWHERE TO LAND A FIXED WING AIRCRAFT IN NOLA!!!! The airports are either underwater or undermined by water.
The biggest thing that could be flown in is a glorified Zodiac boar or Boston Whaler.
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Those choppers should have been in the air this morning. And as for landing strips for transport planes...try the freeways...they are closed to traffic.
We, the USA, could have and should have done better.
Actually, I heard on the radio that Gulfport is the only airport that isn't currently handling flights.
I disagree with any grumbling about the speed of the Federal response. Thanks to the President's leadership, FEMA was authorized to preposition relief assets.