My question: How did he get there and what can they do to help. I mean christ get down there at least with a camera and get this info to the authorities.
I don't need a continuing report on how bad it is. Damn it if you got time to point your camera around and jabber away you got time to get real time info to rescue crews that can get proper medical attention to people in need.
This is what I've found unbelievable through the whole thing.
There was no hurricane plan in place. If you knew the Super Dome might be your only "shelter" in a city that large, and you saw a hurricane approaching, don't you think you'd bring in portable toilets, and stock it with medical supplies before the hurricane approached.
The attitude was "We'll see what happens and then deal with it." That won't work in a city as vulnerable as NO. If folks are urged to keep supplies in their homes in case of hurricanes, shouldn't a city government, in a city with a situation as tenuous as NO, have had some plan to get people to and from the Super Dome if the levees broke.
I am just amazed at the lack of hurricane preparedness. But I'm in Florida and we did pretty darn good last year, thanks to Bush and our EOC's because they always took the threats seriously.
Not to say that things always happened fast...there are still people in Miami without power from Katrina, but there was never any looting (in fact in all 4 storms last year I don't remember any reports of looting), or sense of everything spiraling out of control, and that's the sense I'm hearing from the gov't officials there, they sound like they're shrugging their shoulders and saying, "What can we do?"
I just saw a report with Phil Keating and he interviewed this man that was MAD...saying there were dying people, diabetics...no food...kids...
I have a feeling that if something isn't done today...it may be real anarchy and chaos...
If they can't get ambulances and help to those people, how are they gonna get buses to them to get them to the Astrodome?