Chaos
WWL Channel 4 out of New Orleans has an AP article that details the descent into madness in New Orleans.
I think the pace of the evacuation is shameful. People have been waiting at the Superdome for four days. From all accounts, food and other supplies there are woefully insufficient. This pair of quotes seems negligent:
FEMA director Michael Brown said the agency just learned about the situation at the convention center Thursday and quickly scrambled to provide food, water and medical care and remove the corpses.
Speaking on CNN's "Larry King Live," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the evacuation of New Orleans should be completed by the end of the weekend.
End of the Weekend? This seems insanely slow. Why wasn't the evacuation a priority before the hurricane?
I think the pace of the evacuation is shameful. People have been waiting at the Superdome for four days. From all accounts, food and other supplies there are woefully insufficient. This pair of quotes seems negligent:
FEMA director Michael Brown said the agency just learned about the situation at the convention center Thursday and quickly scrambled to provide food, water and medical care and remove the corpses.
Speaking on CNN's "Larry King Live," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the evacuation of New Orleans should be completed by the end of the weekend.
End of the Weekend? This seems insanely slow. Why wasn't the evacuation a priority before the hurricane?
posted by onlooker at 1:31 AM
1 Comments:
The evacuation was a priority before the hurricane, but the problem is it became one much too late to be effective. Until 24 hours before Katrina slammed New Orleans, when it was hitting the Florida Keys, it was a category 2 storm. Category 2 is nothing new to the Gulf Coast. However, it became much stronger after that, and evacuations began in earnest. But 24 hours is not long enough to evacuate a major city. And now the problem is that you have so many people in an area that is largely inaccessible and you need to get them somewhere else by way of destroyed and flooded pathways. Or... over air I suppose. Frankly, the end of the weekend seems like a good estimate to me.
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