Katrina disaster victims are about to crack - you can tell by listening...

[FormerRepublican]

...I wonder if anyone cares? Man, I am hoping they get help in there soon. Those people are so close to cracking it's not funny. Every time I hear any of them talk - and even the reporters who are covering it - the stress level is clear and obvious. FEMA needs to get help in there ASAP!

I don't know WHY they're not doing air drops of supplies. People are getting seriously desperate. It makes me want to cry.

[fooj]

1. Is this the America that you grew up in?

Peace.

[FormerRepublican]

2. Couldn't the military be doing the air drops?

The news says it will be another 3 or 4 days before FEMA delivers the supplies, but if people don't have water, they won't survive another 3 or 4 days!

:cry:

[burrowowl]

3. If many don't get water soon

they will die.
You would think that a country that organized the Berlin airlift could quickly organize a Hurrican Katrina airlift.

[madfloridian]

4. That kind of hopelessness is simply unbearable.

We felt desperation during the 3 hurricane eyes last year. We were lucky, we still had our home. But I have cried a lot today and yesterday because it is so sad what they are going through.

There is a helpless feeling during storms, we felt it last year. The days without power, and radio hosts who would not stop programming to give aid and instructions...were horrible. We are prepared this year with more portable stuff, but you don't get over it.

Our desperation was nothing compared to what they are going through. It is almost unbearable. And go ahead and cry. My hubby looked up from eating dinner, and he said "I hate that son of a bitch", and he even cried.

It is unprecedented.

[win_in_06]

5. Yeah, they should be dropping pallets of bottled water and MREs

all over N.O.

Preferably floatable pallets.

[complain jane]

6. I look at those poor people and I don't know what I'd do if I was there

I'd be beyond a wreck, anyone would. Losing everything you own, losing your home, having nowhere to even "be", dead bodies, dead pets, sewage, starving, thirsty, people crying everywhere and devastated, and a fucking president who goes golfing and a media that just wants to get the money shot of you sobbing so they can put the track to a nice weepy touching song for the rest of the country to watch on television at six o'clock at night in the comfort of their clean clothes and dry, well-lit, air conditioned homes while eating their dinners and enjoying their friends and families.

I don't know what to do. I see all the links to give money but I don't know where it should go first and I don't know if there's something else I can do. Because I will do it, if there's something I can do to help.

I feel terrible for those poor people and I feel stupid. Helpless, I guess, is a better word. Frustrated and helpless and scared for them. But scared for me too, because that could have been me, if I just happened to live there.

[Erika]

7. People, including the elderly and the young are dying

from lack of water and heat exposure. I have been clearly touched by the reporters. Although they have food and water, they are devastated by what is happening to people there. It's sinful and corrupt that the feds didn't come through for these people.

[Rainscents]

8. There already people died of thurst... lack of water! This was reported

on MSNBC

[glarius]

9. My young grandson thought of the air drops for heaven's sake!

If a child can think of that why couldn't the adults in charge of this operation?....What is happening down there is unbelievable....My country and others have offered help but are still waiting to hear back from the American authorities....

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

10. They mobilized intense hostility towards the US gov't abroad, so

now they're doing the same at home.

Understandable anger. First no help, no planning, now not enough action.

There was a headline on google about the people getting angry.

[Wizard777]

11. Nurse in Charity Hospital near tears on CNN.

Now they are extremely worried about the health of patients and staff. The main problem seemd to be they keep getting promises of help that doesn't come. You can only have your bubble busted so many times. Then you just give up. God love them for their dedication until we can get our love to them.