Little old man on the roof of his house and someone painted

[Bouncy Ball]

"DIABETIC PLEASE HELP" with a little red cross medical sign.

A woman watched her mother die. She needed dialysis. Nothing anyone could do.

Children on a roof who seemed to be without adults with a sign reading "HELP US"

The images just get worse and worse. Tiny children being airlifted and all I can do is hold my breath and think "don't move, kids, don't move, stay in that basket."

Horrifying doesn't even cut it anymore. There's not a word for this.

To think, just yesterday morning I was thinking Katrina didn't end up being so bad.

:-(

[OhioChick]

1. Worse yet.............

It's been DAYS and our government hasn't done a thing, yet. Shouldn't plans have been on the table last week sometime??

[Bouncy Ball]

3. Yes, yes they should have been.

But apparently it wasn't a priority.

Oh thank God, they're airlifting the diabetic old man, thank God, thank God. He seems to have an oxygen tank. Damn, they're having trouble getting the lift up. Shit.

[MadHound]

6. Yes, something should have been on the table, but even now,

At this late date they could be helping these poor people out.

Airdrops are a standard, safe process for getting supplies to people in rugged terrain. Bush should have had a fleet of C-130s already up and dropping food, drugs and supplies to the NO survivors yesterday. Instead he goes off and plays his goddamn guitar in CA.

[Richard Steele]

15. PLANS should have been in a filing cabinet YEARS ago.

That's what grownups do: plan for possible scenarios AHEAD of time.

EVERYONE knew this could happen someday;
they knew it could happen EXACTLY LIKE THIS.

They HAD some plans; problem is, they never got the $$$
they needed to stay prepared.

B*shCabalInc.™ cut funding in every possible way,
slashed every budget, and then shipped the National Guard off to Iraq.

[GumboYaYa]

17. Why the hell have they not been flying supply planes out of Barksdale

One of the biggest air force bases in the worls is a 45 minuteplane ride away/. Where the hell is the help from Barksdale?

[Sequoia]

2. On KHOU a man said he was robbed at knife point

and was told if he didn't give up his truck he would be killed.

[xultar]

4. I went to bed on Monday thinking my family and friends in NOLA were

going to make it. I guess even Tuesday morning I felt the same way.
Tuesday afternoon to now has been sobering.

Even though when I lived there I discussed it happening I never thought the big one would happen in my life time.

I never thought we'd lose NOLA and it is happening.

:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[Bouncy Ball]

5. Oh xultar.

Have you heard from your family and friends? Are they ok?

Hang in there hon. :hug:

[xultar]

8. Not from the ones in town. My Ex left the cats with a friend. What if

they drowned.
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[OhioChick]

10. I'm so sorry.............

Please hang in there. Good thoughts coming your way.

[jackster]

7. it was like this after Andrew

no one knew for a couple of days just how bad it was. Media can't get into all the areas to report in most cases and then you have the after effects of such things as the levee breaks.

Whenever there is a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane, never ever think that "it's not as bad as it could have been." The bad as it is is bad enough.

[Xithras]

9. 300 elderly abandoned in a Miss convalescent hospital.

It was on khou a little while ago. The doctors left, the nurses left, there's no medicine, and 300 elderly patients were stuck when their evacuation bus didn't show up. They apparently have only a few nurses aids looking after them, and four have already died. The nursing aids called the TV station begging for doctors to come help, and for EMT's to bring medicine.

:cry:

[Bouncy Ball]

12. OMG, OMG, OMG.

That it just horrific. How? How does a person just leave them, people who are helpless?

[Xithras]

21. That's what I was wondering.

They didn't explain whether the doctors and nurses left before or after the hurricane. Apparently they were expecting the evacuation busses before the hurricane hit, so it's possible that the doctors and nurses left the patients to the aides until the busses showed up. When they didn't show...

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. Why didn't Homeland Security

send in buses to move these people out on Sunday? So much of this could have been avoided if this country had a real leader.

Hang in there. We have no choice but to try to find a way threw this mess.

[Xithras]

22. As I understand it, they were supposed to.

Understand that this all came out of a 20 second clip, so there are some big knowledge holes here. Still, they made it sound like the center was expecting busses, but the busses never showed.

[TrueAmerican]

11. I seen a man get rescue from a roof

but he left his dog behind. The dog had a look like "wtf?" as he saw his owner just abandon him. I know, people are priority. But.

[Bouncy Ball]

14. That's actually pretty sad to me too.

People's pets can help with their mental and emotional health, that's a proven fact. Just knowing that your pets are ok is a reassurance, having them with you, even better.

[Libby2]

13. I saw it

I cried.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. If the diabetic was a white male and his nurse was black, they were

evacuated. They were attached together and pulled up into the helicopter. I cried.

[Bouncy Ball]

20. I saw that just now.

I cried, too. God, I was so happy. I wrote about it upthread. Thank God.

How many others like him are in dire straits, too? :cry:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

18. My shock is beginning to lift

The enormity of the situation is setting in and I almost cannot listen to reports anymore.

I'm struggling with a feeling of guilt for being where I am, dry, hydrated and well fed. And a desire to do something, anything, to help those tens of thousands of people still alive and suffering.

If I ever see another disaster on foreign shores and have to listen to how much better we (the US) would have handled it, I'm going to smack the person upside their freakin' head.

[Javaman]

23. Come on folks, do really honestly believe moron* has a plan for anything?

Look at Iraq, they only had a plan to "win" the war, but didn't have a clue for what to do afterwards. We, the US citizens, are witnessing a little of morons* planning for afterwards. He cuts budgets and emergency help, then hides for days wondering what to do.

Folks, the people in NO will eventually get help but it won't be because moron* rose to the moment, it's because the average slobs out there are doing the helping. Those DC folks, don't want to get all dirty helping the great unwashed.

He will parade out on to a pile of rubble this Friday to a prechosen audience, spout off some, "look I have a big dick", remarks, shed the prerequested tear on que, talk about all the help he will send, then he will jump back into his helicopter never to be seen again, so he can go on with his life.

On a different note, I'm glad moron* didn't go to Nam, why? Because he is a coward and the other soldiers that he would have served with, would have had to depend on this piece of shit to protect their back in a firefight. Could you honestly say, that those other soldiers could have depended on him, given the show of bullshit chickenhawk status he displays without shame?

colossal failure*.