Emptying out the convention center will take a FEW MORE DAYS?! [View All]

[nonconformist]

WTF!?!?!?!

Just reported on CNN, along with the news that the Superdome is now empty.

again, wtf?

edit: link

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/04/katrina.impact/index.html

Evacuees wait as relief effort builds
Military role grows amid suffering at convention center, hospitals

Sunday, September 4, 2005; Posted: 3:42 a.m. EDT (07:42 GMT)

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Action on the ground in New Orleans picked up Saturday as authorities evacuated 42,000 people from the city, including all of those who were gathered in the Superdome.

With the military's role growing, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his top general are scheduled to visit New Orleans Sunday to see the efforts firsthand.

Buses began arriving at the Ernest Morial Convention Center mid-morning Saturday, and evacuated some 4,000 people by the end of the day, according to officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Military officials said it could take days to fully evacuate the convention center, where as many as 30,000 victims have been stranded amid mounds of trash and human waste, with little food or water, since Katrina's landfall on Monday.