Are you retarded? I'm just asking.
As for TV I mostly watch Fox ... and some CNN ... a tiny bit of MSNBC.
Try it again. I spent a good chunk of Sunday fussing at the phone while my mother tried to talk some sense into my cousin. While there are certainly some who truly didn't have the means to get out, there are others who just plain didn't want to, for whatever reason.
You are supporting CNN's lies when you make statements like that.
And who is to question why one did not leave. Perhaps a lack of available flights by the time it was confirmed that NO was the target of Katrina?
Please stop insulting our collective intelligence; she was at the Ritz Carlton for her anniversary; if she can afford the Ritz, she could have gotten out of town. Like the hundreds of other thousands did.
Face it, she bet it would turn and she lost.
Find me another U.S. President who put FEMA in the staging positions before the storm hit. Find me another U.S. President who authorized National Guard troops being staged as early. Blanco said today that busses went through the city and were available for people to get on. They chose to ride it out. "Real" reporting wouldn't be talking about ANY U.S. President visiting a zone where gunfire is going on. "Real" reporting would understand that Marine 1 in the air means a disruption in rooftop rescues. Take a history lesson. Camille was the measuring point for storms in that area. It had 200+ mph winds but the circle of those winds was much smaller than the 145+ mph winds that extended out over 100 miles from the center. 30 miles of coastline, 10 blocks back has dissappeared from the earth. Maybe you don't have skin in that game down there, I do and so do several others so take a clue and get some facts before you post dribble.
You really need to check this post out: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1474387/posts?page=106#106
This is the greatest natural disaster in our nation's history. It might have been alleviated by corrective action many years ago, as the Army Corps of Engineers was crying about, but blaming this on any current government leaders is nuts. Some of them are beyond their competance level (blame the N.O. and LA voters) and for the rest we simply don't maintain FEMA with the capability to build a city for 500,000 people in three days and relocate that number of people to it.
I won't vouch for all that jeffers stated in his post, but certainly blaming anyone for their failure in this unprecidented situation is simply nutty. Anyone who looked at that levee breach on Mon/Tues who didn't realize the ramifications would be dire wasn't looking ahead, and no amount of planning/ coordination/ leadership by anybody was going to prevent what is now going on. The one and only leadership failure I would place my finger on as of now is failure of the governor to DECLARE MARTIAL LAW and give shoot to kill orders regarding looters and other criminals, as many of us recommended two days ago, the direct consequence of which is today's travesty.
As for the rest, it takes time to coordinate these emergency responses, and they're doing as well as can be expected when there is zero transport and communications infrastructure remaining.