[Howlin]

Another point: the people in the convention center BROKE in there; most of them are the ones who have left the SuperDome because they are refusing to go to Houston. The Convention Center was NEVER set up to be a shelter.

And.......even if these people decided to stay despite the order, I heard the mayor of New Orleans tell them all to have three to five days worth of food and water for each person because they might not be able to get help to them for a few days.

Where is their food?

[Coldwater Creek]

It was the end of the month. Food stamps were all gone.

[pnz1]

This was the end of the month. If someone is on Federal programs, they may have been out of benefits for the month.

[Arizona Carolyn]

That may be where I read they broke through the steel door into the storage room and pulled out flats of water, juice, food, etc... and were passing it around.

[bjs1779]

And.......even if these people decided to stay despite the order, I heard the mayor of New Orleans tell them all to have three to five days worth of food and water for each person because they might not be able to get help to them for a few days. Where is their food?

It sounds like you are getting real close to the Terri Schiavo rational. In that, they (she) doesn't deserve to live?

[Ovation_girl]

"Another point: the people in the convention center BROKE in there; most of them are the ones who have left the SuperDome because they are refusing to go to Houston. The Convention Center was NEVER set up to be a shelter.

And.......even if these people decided to stay despite the order, I heard the mayor of New Orleans tell them all to have three to five days worth of food and water for each person because they might not be able to get help to them for a few days."

There may have been an initial break-in, and I cannot confirm there wasn't...
BUT...
may if the infirm and others there were taken there by authorities after they were rescued.(A fact already posted here in news reports and reported in interviews on TV) If you are taking people some place,you darn better be sure there are provisions for them there. Those who were rescued mostly came with the clothes on their backs...Officials have been promising these people that buses are coming. And there is no police presence in the Convention Center.... STILL! Knowing the problem, why haven't the city officials dispatched some of the troops to this location?