What's going on at the Superdome ?

[DoYouEverWonder]

are people finally coming out?

Or are they just bringing in supplies to keep them there indefinitely?

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Nobody knows what's going on at the Superdome?

Isn't that odd.

A big convoy went in there this afternoon. This should be the top story? What's going on?

[AlCzervik]

2. there is almost no media coverage there today

i think they are having a blackout becasue idiot son is visiting.

[nonconformist]

11. I suspect they're being kept away at this point (media)

Because the conditions at the Dome have become so horrific.

[Opusnone]

3. Good question

I think FEMA is going to quarantine the entire metro area and are getting all the reporters out. If the populace knew about this it would escalate, possibly state or nation wide. I haven't heard this anywhere so I'm not sourcing. Just call it a hunch.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. That's what I'm picking up on too

Bush is there but he's staying on AF1. Probably doesn't want to get exposed to any of those nasty water borne diseases.

If we are fast enough and loud enough maybe we can demand that these folks start getting treated NOW, in order to prevent further tragedy.

BTW: Welcome to DU :hi:

[Opusnone]

5. Thanks

I'm here in SoFla monitoring info on the net while my wife keeps me posted with TV coverage. One question, has anyone gotten water or food yet? She said she didn't know.
Since this morning we've both been pondering the total lack of on the ground reporting in the city. Don't tell me its too dangerous because reporters worldwide have been in war zones, etc. for years. Why can't anyone get a video feed? Quite scary, more to come.

[walkon]

8. Plenty of feeds yesterday when I was able to watch.

Lack of feeds today - ensuring no contradictory images to the * photo-op? Something even more sinister? Getting scary to add to depressing and enraging.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Why aren't we seeing convoys taking people out

Maybe because they are all too sick and starting to die already?

[Horse with no Name]

15. They said that people were dying on the buses arriving at the

Astrodome last night.
Truly--after 3 days under those conditions--any time beyond that is truly borrowed time.Those people are the walking dead.
Many of the people are probably deathly ill by now {(since Gov. Blanco announced on Tuesday night that it was untenable for more than 24 hours)--that is when she was begging for help}.
My guess is that they don't want to pull up to shelters with a load of corpses.

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. Why are they dying on the buses?

Once they got food and water they should have stabalized.

I heard that they didn't give them anything to eat or drink on the buses? Or is something else killing these people at this point?

[kansasblue]

6. no mobile phone, no camera phones?

anybody on the inside with comms?

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Some folks were monitoring police scanners?

But why isn't the M$M covering this story today?

[Opusnone]

10. Why, indeed...

Yesterday even the righties were screaming for help. Well they got it-they're not in the city anymore. Where are they?
Last night Larry f-in King sounded like he was scolding Anderson Cooper for being "quite angry". Maybe all the truth tellers are being spanked for exposing this embarrassment.

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. No it's time to go back to their regular scheduled programming

looking for one white girl in Aruba.

[spuddonna]

13. good question... haven't heard anything... n/t

[Synnical]

14. AP: Misery grows for those remaining in the Superdome

Storm refugees still stuck at the Superdome on Friday faced knee-deep trash and blacked-out bathrooms. "This was the worst night of my life," one mother said.

The conditions stayed miserable even as the crowds shrank after buses ferried thousands to Houston a day earlier. While the evacuation resumed Friday, the press of people on the bridge outside the arena was just as great as before.

Capt. Andrew Lindgren with the Air National Guard said about 8,000 to 10,000 people remained in the Superdome. Most of them are jammed on the ramps leading out.

Friday's evacuations began about 9 a.m., halted for about an hour and then resumed at about 11 a.m. Authorities estimated they could move about 1,000 of them an hour when the buses are in place.

More at link
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl090205supermisery.1b0d5d41.html


Edit to add link - duh

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. Why is there anyone remaining in there at this point.

The road going out of town to the west is totally clear.

It is genocide to continue to keep those people in there.

[Synnical]

16. AP: Hyatt guests moved to head of line for evacuation

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

3:34 P.M. - (AP) The evacuation of Superdome refugees was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt hotel. They were move to the head of the line to be evacuated -- much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome for days.

The 700 had been trapped in the Hyatt just like the others, but conditions were considerably cleaner, even without running water, than the unsanitary crush inside the dome.

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. The roads are completely clear of traffic

They can empty the Superdome after a game in less then an hour. Why can't the get these people out of there after five days?