'It Was Like the End of the World,' One Texan Says

[caligirl]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/23/AR2005092302186.html



"All public services along the evacuation route -- for gasoline, food, water, bathrooms -- were closed.

Ruben, 50, a juvenile-detention officer in Galveston County, said he saw three ambulances carry away elderly people who had collapsed in the heat of their unmoving cars. His grandchildren, 4 and 7, had put on baby diapers to avoid soiling the car.

"It was like the end of the world," Ruben said. "You know what it makes you want to do? It makes you want to go home and die. The government done us wrong."

[Helga Scow Stern]

1. Recommended. There is very little of this coverage on TV--

DeLay is trying to win talking points.

[maddezmom]

2. locking

discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=159124&mesg_id=159124