New Orleans left to the dead and dying

[brooklynite]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thousands more bedraggled refugees were bused and airlifted to salvation Saturday, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care.

No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating among the ruined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, abandoned on highways.

And the dying goes on — at the convention center and an airport triage center, where bodies were kept in a refrigerated truck.

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/weather/index.ssf?/base/national-50/112574964213362.xml&storylist=hurricane
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This is the second night after Bush's trip to the Gulf and the arrival of the supply convoy. I find it hard to believe there could still be people waiting for evacuation.

[KittyWampus]

1. soon it will be only a damned recovery operation

[nookiemonster]

4. You're right.

I hate the fucking phrase "recovery operation"

Damn.

[Mass]

2. Misleading title. There are still a lot of people in NOLA and in the subs.

both at the convention centers and stranded on the roofs.

We are to be careful not to allow the media not to cover that.

[UpInArms]

3. also from your link:

At the convention center, people stumbled toward the helicopters, dehydrated and nearly passing out from exhaustion. Many had to be carried by National Guard troops and police on stretchers. And some were being pushed up the street on office chairs and on dollies.

Nita LaGarde, 105, was pushed down the street in her wheelchair as her nurse's 5-year-old granddaughter, Tanisha Blevin, held her hand. The pair spent two days in an attic, two days on an interstate island and the last four days on the pavement in front of the convention center.

[wellstone dem]

6. I heard on one of the news channels about this woman

what she has endured is incredible, after so many years to have to see this is tragic.

[msongs]

5. same title at earthlink news - a bit of hyperbole like when bush says

everything is fine now, book your rooms for mardi gras '06.

Msongs
www.msongs.com

[enough]

7. Good reporting.

[KamaAina]

8. "Nothin' but the dead and dying back in my little town"

from Paul Simon. :(

[stickdog]

9. Accurate Headline: NO left for dead, but thousands still fighting for life