I thought of that too. The people need to get information like what Guillani did in NYC. No one is telling the people what is going on.
WHERE ARE THE LEADERS?
There is a difference from 9/11. There was still power, and a limited area was affected. I agree with you that someone should be passing information somewhere, helicopters flying over with loudspeakers or something. But, I don't think 9/11 is comparable.
Giuliani was sort of an odd case. He was kind of a prickly hard-ass with attitude, and people don't usually elect that sort to be mayor, even in New York where attitude counts for something. I can't remember who the Dems ran against him, but it must have been a total loser.
He was unpopular until 9/11.
After that, he was the right guy for the job.
"The people need to get information like what Guillani did in NYC. No one is telling the people what is going on.
WHERE ARE THE LEADERS?"
Exactly right. Communication, just knowing what's going on, makes all the difference. Granted, a majority of the people in N.O. don't have TV reception right now, but as you pointed out, at least they could be making efforts to inform people concentrated in certain places, such as the Superdome. Or what about all the people on the freeway overpass? It boggles my mind that any emergency personnel there seem to be acting as independent operators, they have no orders from the top and were sort of wandering aimlessly themselves (i.e., the policeman Shep Smith tried to question). An entire day has gone by and not one person has come out there with a megaphone to tell those people their evacuation plan, or airdropped a pallet of bottled water. Surely that could have been done by now?
I know this is a disaster beyond anything we've experienced, but the leadership/message void is becoming more and more apparent, as is the absence of any large-scale disaster plan. It may have been impossible to carry out parts of a disaster plan due to the enormous impact on all of the city's resources, but it seems like at least certain aspects of that plan could have been put into motion by now, for instance, where were the airlifts of food, water and portable toilets into the Dome before today, if the Dome *was* the extent of the original disaster plan?