DC buses to NO may come back EMPTY! Can't find anyone

[soothsayer]

left to evacuate in NO, according to DC area channel 7 (wjla?) news.

AR might fly some survivors into DC to sleep in the Stadium Armory, but the buses might come back later...empty!!

Does this puzzle anyone else but me?

[niyad]

1. WTF? how many people are still there? we KNOW the city is NOT empty

[Igel]

4. Or too dispersed, or unable to get to assembly points ...

assuming, of course, they know to assemble.

We have no clue how many people remain, or why any given person is there.

[AnnieBW]

9. DC Wants Them!

People in DC want to help! We've got people who are inundating the collection centers with food, clothes, toiletries, etc. They had to turn away a bunch of people from the Armory today because they hadn't called the volunteer hotline first.

[rainbow4321]

2. FEMA sent the Houston schools buses away today...

Told them that their services were no longer needed.

[benito]

7. that explains the empty ones I saw today

returning to TX from LA

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=155x2358

[blitzen]

3. more dead than anyone is yet willing to admit....

the LSU Hurricane prof on MSNBC tonight said that he gave an estimate to the Governor this morning, but that it was confidential. His tone of voice was very grim.

[blitzen]

13. Also, New Orleans is, or is about to be "locked down" n/t

[goclark]

5. They don't want my brothers and sisters

in DC

They know the true and they don't want them anywhere near the WH

[bribri16]

6. I posted earlier that a minister on TV said not to go to NO but rather

to go to Houston. But who is paying attention my posts anyway?

[journalist3072]

8. I live here in DC...

And am currently watching WUSA (Channel 9) 11:00 news. They expect approximately 400-500 people to arrive tomorrow from Arkansas.

They showed the D.C. Armory preparing for the influx, and it looks like they are setting things up really nice for them.

They told us not to bring anything directly to the Armory tomorrow, b/c they will be busy dealing with the influx.

Rather, we are to take stuff to one of the local police districts.

[soothsayer]

12. yeah, flying them from AR, but ain't it weird---empty buses?

Nice buses (with AC, bathrooms) not DC metro buses. Just puzzling to me.

[journalist3072]

15. On Channel 9...

I didn't hear anything about empty buses. They were just basically saying that they expect approximately 400-500 people tomorrow, and they are also making plans if the D.C. Armony gets too full.

They are setting things up real nice for them, too, it looks like.

[soothsayer]

18. Get away from Topper Shutt and that HDTV, lol

[journalist3072]

20. ROFL! n/t

[FormerRepublican]

10. They waited too long.

Everyone that's left is dead. 5 days without water is the max you can survive.

I saw on CNN today a piece about folks in a hospice, 5 were already dead, the rest were dying. Think about it. Helpless, dependent on others, and dying from flooding and lack of food and water. Yeah, that's how I'd want to go.

Also, people in nursing homes, the elderly with mobility limitations, the disabled. They all got to drink the big water, then thirst to death.

I HATE this Administration. I HATE them. The horrors of New Orleans (and everywhere along the coast with no Fed help) revolts me.

And I read that an evacuation shelter had an outbreak of dysentery - at least 20 people sick.

Welcome to Bush's America.

[Mnemosyne]

16. Earlier there was a report,

first person had died from dysentery, can't get to search and forgot to bookmark.
I hate *'s Amerika. I hope you are wrong about the dead, but you may be right.

[soothsayer]

17. CNN said first CHOLERA death. try that search

[Barack_America]

19. I find that hard to believe considering lab tests are required for...

...that diagnosis. None the less, it does further the Third World image this country is apparently going for.

It's funny, when Bush was elected/re-elected I tried to comfort myself with the thought, "Ok, how bad can it REALLY get just because that jackass is in the White House?"

Pretty fucking bad, I guess. First World to Third World is a pretty impressive drop.

[Barack_America]

11. How anybody could be so stupid as to come back empty...

...when there are thousands needing to be relocated just hours away is beyond me.

But then again, these buses ARE from D.C. so they're from a culture of waste and lack of problem-solving ability...

[soothsayer]

14. Hey now! Watch it. I'm a DC native, and....

ok, well, you may be onto something.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. They'll find them in the morning.

Who would wander around NOLA at this time of night?