Rumors

Maybe this will help people understand how bad things are.

Terry Ebbert, head of the city’s emergency
operations, warned that the slow evacuation at the Superdome had become
an “incredibly explosive situation,” and he bitterly complained that
FEMA was not offering enough help.

“This is a national emergency. This is a national disgrace,” he said.
“FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control. We
can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can’t bail
out the city of New Orleans.“

More of why some of these people are upset:

An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a
grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an
elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered with a blanket, and
another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.

“I don’t treat my dog like that,” 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he
pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. “I buried my dog.” He added:
“You can do everything for other countries but you can’t do nothing for
your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can’t
get them down here.”

Whoa…? Is our government really this slow
in responding to such a crisis in our own country?? Or is this
disaster of such a magnitude that it is simply unreasonable to expect
anything better?? Would more and better planning have helped in
this situation?? Again, who is in charge of this?

Finally, this part of the story really struck me
for some reason.? I know that perhaps thousands have died during
this event, but the thought of this little boy losing his dog really
gave me pause.

Many people had dogs and they cannot take them on
the bus. A police officer took one from a little boy, who cried until
he vomited. “Snowball, snowball,” he cried. The policeman told a
reporter he didn’t know what would happen to the dog.

Source: www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/01/D8CBN9OG2.html

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