Tunnel vision again.
No need to use the water that flowed in through the dikes,. NOLA has just been through a hurricane. There is rain water that has collected in numerous places. And there are thousands of toilet tanks still holding clean city water. (Note: I said "tanks" not "toilets".)
Failing that, contaminants in the flood water are so diluted that if you dip below the surface, (to avoid floating petrochems) drinking enough of it (thoroughly boiled, of course) to prevent dehydration is better than death. Squeamisness is not a survival trait.
It doesn't take much dehydration to begin to derange a human's mental processes. Go ahead and dehydrate -- and become incapacitated -- and die -- of dehydration...waiting for somone else to serve you a drink.
I, for one, will take care of myself -- and others around me -- and survive. You, OTOH, would be begging for a Darwin Award.
Here's your epitaph:
"Bush didn't bring me a drink."
Unfortunately, yours might not be the only such tombstone...
How old are you???? Unless you are 15-40 y/o you would die just like the rest. And just how are you going to start a fire?
What are these dumb@$$es going to do when their welfare check doesn't come? Oh, right, no problem -- they aready sat on their butts and perished because their liberal government didn't serve them the Perrier to which they were entitled...
Hello, Darwin!
But for the rest of us girly men we would prefer the guard to show up with some bottled water.
"Bush didn't bring me a drink."
LOL Didn't Teddy Kennedy say that first?