'They left us to die, all of us - it was hell'

[applegrove]

'They left us to die, all of us - it was hell'

JACQUI GODDARD IN NEW ORLEANS AND RICHARD LUSCOMBE IN MIAMI
The Scotsman


" Snip.....

Some patients were evacuated in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, but the nurse, who declined to give his name, described scenes of fear and desperation inside Memorial Medical Centre as eight-foot floodwaters rose around the building, stranding many patients and carers on their wards in stifling temperatures.

Nurses battled to keep patients alive in temperatures of 106F after the power supply was knocked out and the fresh-water supply dried up. They struggled to carry many of them down seven flights of stairs, because there was no electricity to run the lifts, and decanted them into boats manned by volunteer rescue crews. After four days, the building reeked of "sewage and death", staff have claimed.

"It was hard. It was hell. It was hot - life-threateningly hot," said the male nurse yesterday, standing in the muddy street outside the red-brick hospital from where the floodwaters have now drained, leaving a foul reek and a tidemark of filth.

"It was bad in there, I find it hard to think about. We were left here to die, all of us - the patients and staff. We had no communication, we had no help from those you'd have expected to help. It was just volunteers coming in, trying to help us get people off on boats."

....Snip "

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1935142005

[Erika]

1. One of Bush's finer moments to be recorded in history

The president who should have never been and never really was. Damn him.

[ladylibertee]

2. That is sad. here these people are trying to save others lives, in the

horrific conditions they were in,with prehistoric resources and multiply that by at least 20 to 30 other hospitals.I would love for this week to go by like last week in the regards of key figures who are responsible RESIGNING....it would do this country a great justice for President Dumbo to step down.

[Skittles]

3. I will forever blubber if I think long enough about the WTC jumpers

and now it fills me with despair to think about not just when the levee disaster happened to these folk, but the moment they realized no one was coming to help them. Then there's the dead and injured troops in Iraq and the thousands of Iraqi civilian casualties - I could go on - bush inc is filling my mind with unmitigated horror.

[pushycat]

4. So much death since 2000

Wherever bush people go, whatever they do, death, destruction, domination. We are going to stop this outrage somehow. A citizen revolt might show the world America's people are still good and we really do care.

What do they think of us now?

[Karenina]

5. "They" think y'all are a fuckin' menace.

And they're quite correct. ;-)

[Karenina]

6. OOOPS!

Did I kill this thread? :blush: