What it is doing is it is leaving no other option other than to have local newspaper editors resort to writing blogs of just how bad the situation is. It is setting off a desperate panic from families across the nation who can no longer accept the excuse of phone lines are down, don't worry...we are sure they are ok.
Sure...there were plenty of survivors inland...totally different towards the coast.
Family Escapes Storm, Worries For Friends (9/1/05)
La. man concerned about damage to house
BY TERRI SANGINITI / The News Journal 09/01/2005
As he drove out of New Orleans hours before Hurricane Katrina struck, attorney Charlie Carr passed hundreds of people: adults sitting on their porches and kids in the street, riding bicycles as if it were a snow day.
"I know these people didn't get out," the former Wilmington resident said Wednesday, choking back tears.
Three days earlier, he gathered his two kids, three dogs and three cats and drove 16 hours to Nashville, Tenn., to avoid brutal winds and flooding.
Carr said he has remained in contact via the Internet with friends in New Orleans, many of them police and rescue workers.
"A lot of policemen are dead," Carr said. "They sent the second shift home Sunday night and told them to just come back for the regular shift the next day. The officers were text messaging that they were trapped in their homes."
"The death toll is going to be enormous," he said. "I don't know if my friends got out."