FOUR DAYS LATER AND NO WATER DISTRIBUTED

[xiamiam]

this should have been the first priority...the entire country should be enraged over this nonsense...we are watching people dehydrate in front of us...they survived katrina, the flood...but they cant survive this pitiful excuse for a government

[cyberpj]

1. WHERE ARE THE BULL-HORNS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS?!

News channels keep saying people don't know what is going on.

Where are the bull-horns and announcements?!

Every channel has a guy with a mike there showing the people but no one is announcing anything to them!?!?

I hope the world is noticing the Bush ineptitude.

[Pool Hall Ace]

2. Is our Red Cross down there?

I haven't had the TV on much, because all I see is either hand-wringing (by the journalists) or looting, and then I start crying, which doesn't do anybody any good.

Why is it taking so long for relief to get there?

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Nothing? At all? Still??

I thought that by now they'd at least have gotten some water in. This is the first chance I've had to come here for any length of time since Katrina hit. Everything I'm reading is making me physically ill as it is, but I would have thought there'd have been some clean water, at least.

:cry:

[triguy46]

4. total frickin' incompetence n/t

[cyberpj]

5. welcome to du xiamiam - I share your outrage.

:hi:

BTW - I heard they're not dropping supplies in the city because they don't want people to stay there. Unbelievable.

[Birthmark]

6. What the HELL ARE THEY DOING?

They aren't taking on the armed gangs.

They aren't rescuing people nearly fast enough.

They aren't giving out food and water to those who can't be rescued immediately.

They aren't evacuating the city, the highways, or even the Superdome.

Just what the FUCK is going on in New Orleans?!

[booksenkatz]

A few mins. ago

I heard on MSNBC on XM radio a report from a journalist who had stumbled upon the Hell that is now I-10. She said one woman was begging, BEGGING, for water, another woman held up her 7-day old baby and screamed that the baby was dehydrated; another woman was shouting that her child is asthmatic. These people had been sitting out on this blistering freeway for DAYS. With NOTHING.

I am enraged. I don't expect perfection from the powers that be, but I do expect planning, sensible planning. Just a tiny drop of planning would have MITIGATED what we are seeing. These people are dying in front of us. They are dehydrating to death. Is America angry yet?

[cyberpj]

9. I watched that same clip. If all these newspeople can get there,

with all their trucks and equipment - WHY NOT WATER SUPPLIES!??!

[cyberpj]

11. It's surreal. Clean and well-dressed talking heads not talking to

the people but talking about them.

[ohio_liberal]

7. I wrote this in another thread--The way it stand right now

Only the strongest will survive. The sick, children, elderly still trapped in the NOLA and other communities hit hard by the hurricane don't look like they're going to make it :cry:

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. Doesn't matter how strong you are, with the heat and humidity

and NO WATER for FOUR DAYS or longer, you won't survive. It friggin hot here in the south and the humidity is oppresive.

[lonestarnot]

8. Maybe we should all just hit the streets with bullhorns and demand help

for these people. Streets sure are quiet here in AZ it is eery.

[dutchdemocrat]

10. Where is your link?

Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?Where is your link?

[cyberpj]

12. Live on MSNBC - see post #7 - I watched it too. nt.

[cyberpj]

13. self delete - dupe

[xiamiam]

14. turn on the tv and look at the people begging for water

if they are not at the superdome...what are you watching?..where are you getting your news....nothing has changed for days...even the hospitals have reported running out of supplies....

[dutchdemocrat]

19. umm.... no

My tv is certainly a lot different than your since I live in Holland.

[M155Y_A1CH]

16. Not LBN

This was not posted in LBN, no link is required.

[kenny blankenship]

15. So this is compassionate conservativism?

"We watch you die on camera."

[xiamiam]

17. just reported again outside of superdome no water

a woman died right there...thousands sitting out there without help...this is an outrage