OMG..people are screaming for help..

[Green Mountain Dem]

at 2 hospitals in NO..I think they (WRUD 6) said Methodist has been taken over by gunmen and another hospital is out of food and water.
Pleading for help from any emergency agency..what a Nightmare!! One of these hospitals has 25ft of water inside!

On edit..that should be WDSU.com

[phantom power]

1. This is unbelievable. Can't they even keep the hospitals running?

[rodeodance]

5. Charity said the Guard promised them yest.that they would be evacuated

but by noon today, no one has shown up. about 1000 people staff, families and patients.

[tjdee]

2. The Pentagon says we have enough personnel, so it's fine.

We have enough NG, enough people working on it.

Those people in the hospital obviously haven't been informed.

[rodeodance]

7. more help not for a few days and they are for 'crime' prevention!!

[fasttense]

3. Holy crap and all of this could have been prevented

with a little planning.

[MissMarple]

6. Well, that would require living in a reality based world, now wouldn't it?

They would have to deal with all the messy facts that might get in the way of their games and big plans.

[rodeodance]

4. the other one is Charity Hospital not too far away.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Come on Bush is busy

it's time for his guitar lesson.

[rodeodance]

9. these stories need to be on the evening news!!

[rodeodance]

10. good gawd, Gov. Blanche just said Help is on the way. when!!

[Emit]

11. Here's one report from WDSU

NEW ORLEANS -- The top Homeland Security official in New Orleans said bands of gunmen are roaming through New Orleans.

Terry Ebbert said looters have been breaking into stores all over town to steal guns. The Times-Picayune newspaper reported the gun section at a new Wal-Mart has been cleaned out. And the thieves are apparently using their new guns, with shots heard through the night.

Guns aren't the only things drawing the thieves. People commandeered a forklift on high ground to lift storm shutters and break the glass of a Rite-Aid pharmacy. A crowd stormed the store, carrying ice, water and food.

A spokeswoman for Lousiana's governor said workers at Children's Hospital huddled with sick kids and waited for help to arrive as looters tried to break in. Help never arrived.

cont'd. here:

http://www.wdsu.com/news/4919970/detail.html

[rodeodance]

12. abc just reported on dire conditions at Charity Hospital. still no one

came to pick them up.

[DIKB]

13. My word.

This is outrageous, but not surprising given how little they prepared for this hurricane. Or how little aid is being given by *.