New Orleans Left to the Dead and Dying

[cynatnite]

NEW ORLEANS - Thousands more bedraggled refugees were bused and airlifted to salvation Saturday, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care.

No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating among the ruined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, abandoned on highways.

And the dying goes on — at the convention center and an airport triage center, where bodies were kept in a refrigerated truck.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Saturday that she expected the death toll to reach the thousands. And Craig Vanderwagen, rear admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service, said one morgue alone, at a St. Gabriel prison, expected 1,000 to 2,000 bodies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_katrina

[ananda]

1. yes..

.. the NOLA death toll will be very high, unnecessarily.. just like Iraq.

Everything Bush does or doesn't too causes death and suffering for so many of his darkskinned friends who deserve freedom and democracy just like God wants for everyone.

Sue

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. After seeing what Andrew did to Homestead.... (I went there during

the cleanup to maintain equipment) I couldn't have imagined that Katrina would do what she did to NO. Neither could the feds, neither could the executive, neither could anyone who has been given charge over the safety of America. This is total bull.

[Field Of Dreams]

3. Before this is all over, the administration will want

to drop some big nasty incineration-type bombs on the whole city to hide all the carnage. They will cite public health concerns.