Now that you mention it, I heard that the looters stayed behind and started looting before the storm even ended too.
I don't think we heard too much about it Monday; it didn't register with me if we did.
So the storm ended Monday; the levee broke that night; the looting was horrific by Tuesday morning when I woke up.
By Tuesday and Wednesday, the president had ordered the full force of the federal government to the relief effort. Hampering those efforts were gunshots and water and inaccessible roads.
This story on Hurricane Kartina on Discovery Channel is very interesting. Lots of graphics, shows the wetlands and how and why they had been worried about this happening... showed lots of photos of New Orleans before the Hurricane... makes what we've seen this week even sadder.
The New York Slimes is slamming the president in tomorrow's edition.
Sigh...what else is new?
But the truly weird thing is, the former-and-never-again-to-be-president
is SUPPORTING Mr. Bush against his critics.
Never thought I'd see that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/politics/02bush.html
EXCERPT:
Mr. Clinton, who has become politically close to the Bush family in the last year, was the most prominent Democrat to defend Mr. Bush against the accusations of slowness.
Asked about the federal response in an interview on CNN, Mr. Clinton said that he understood why the refugees living in "hellacious conditions" in the New Orleans Superdome felt the way they did, "but the people that put them there did it because they thought they were saving their lives, and then when the problems showed up, they had a lot of other people to save."