"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?
I wonder if the President realizes how inept the NO mayor and the LA governor are....and is frustrated by this?
I am hoping the President does a longer address to the nation once the recovery and everything is done, like he did several days after 9/11....like today, his 9/11 address was short and to the point.