Remember the group of tourists who chartered a bus to escape NO?

[Rose Siding]

There was a moving first person account withing a DUer's post several days ago. The media has it-

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/2748

An example, from today's SFChron...

Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky, two San Francisco paramedics trapped in New Orleans for five days last week, have a different story to tell than many of the tales that have come out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

By their account, the cops weren't necessarily the good guys, and it was crystal clear that most of the city government structure collapsed along with the levees that left the city at the mercy of the rising waters.

When Hurricane Katrina hit Aug. 29, Bradshaw and his longtime live-in girlfriend were at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans' French Quarter, in town for a three-day paramedics conference at the convention center.

After the storm died down the next day, they were among 500 people sheltered in hotels throughout the tourist district -- foreign tourists, conference attendees and locals who'd checked in to ride out the storm.

The stranded crowd stared at food and water locked in a drugstore across the street from the hotel only to be shooed away by police officers whenever anyone approached the store. Finally, after hours of cat and mouse, the crowd finally broke into the store.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/09/BAGL1EL1KH1.DTL&type=printable

[Ioo]

1. Here is the WHOLE story, very very long...

http://www.bushsamerica.com/index.php/2005/09/08/a_story_from_the_inside_new_orleans

[txaslftist]

2. A GREAT story. Captures FEMA's fuckups 1,2,3.

[KharmaTrain]

3. This Will Be THE Movie

I was following these dispatches as they coming out. It really is something out of a movie or video game.

The most horrifying was the Gretna Police on the Crescent City connection bridge who cut off the south (east) escape from the city or the higjacking of those busses.

Too bad the corporate media missed this story, hopefully the script writers and historians will.

[Rose Siding]

4. It could still get picked up- this is on UPI, and in StL and SF papers