[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"What I want to know is why the son did not go and evacuate his mother when he knew the storm was coming."

I want an answer to that question too, especially since the son was the head of the state or local emergency management office. At least, why didn't the son send someone after the hurricane to rescue the entire nursing home?

[Goodgirlinred]

That information makes it even worse. He should have had the ENTIRE nursing home evacuated BEFORE the storm hit.

Those people look like a bunch of incompetents. When I was charge nurse on a med/surg floor many years ago, we had an evacuation plan for fire, etc. I live in the south central part of Virginia, so we don't have floods, etc. If we had, we would have had an evacuation plan and would run drills just like we did routinely for fire, etc. My staff would NEVER have left patients to die.