"As reports continued of famished and dehydrated people isolated across the Gulf Coast, angry questions were pressed about why the military has not been dropping food packets for them -- as was done in Afghanistan, Bosnia and in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami.
Bill Wattenburg, a consultant for the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and one of the designers of the earlier food drop programs, said that he has lobbied the administration and the military to immediately begin something similar. He said he was told that the military was prepared to begin, but that it was awaiting a request from FEMA.
"We know very well how to do this, and it's just incomprehensible that we're not," Wattenburg said."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090200670_2.htmlI was watching MSNBC early this morning and they said 10 people had died on an overpass waiting for help that never came.
The same article I just posted also states in there that FEMA had "rented 2000 buses" that were en route to help with evacuations. Now that I have read so many other threads about volunteer help being turned away or resisted by FEMA, a little lightbulb is going off in my head. How do some perceive the war in Iraq? As a business opportunity. Maybe Katrina is seen the same way. I doubt that it was really necessary for FEMA to rent and wait for any busses at all. I bet every surrounding community and state would have gladly sent municiple and school buses ASAP if they had been asked or allowed to. Maybe it's more important for FEMA to spend all those millions and billions. Does Halliburton have a bus subsidiary? Just wondering.
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