Victims feel forgotten in southeastern Louisiana

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.forgottentown.ap/index.html

Victims feel forgotten in southeastern Louisiana

'St. Bernard Parish and Plaquemines was ground zero'

Thursday, September 8, 2005; Posted: 1:37 p.m. EDT (17:37 GMT)

CHALMETTE, Louisana (AP) -- The cars were swallowed, the homes shattered and the people left clinging for life. Survivors waited for help, but it seemed like so little, so late.

More than a week since Hurricane Katrina cut its swath along the Gulf Coast, word is only now starting to trickle out from this outlying area of some 66,000 people on Louisiana's southeastern edge. What's said is filled with anger -- residents feeling even more abandoned than hard-hit New Orleans -- and disbelief.

"If you dropped a bomb on this place, it couldn't be any worse than this," said Ron Silva, a district fire chief in St. Bernard Parish. "It's Day 8, guys. Everything was diverted first to New Orleans, we understand that. But do you realize we got 18 to 20 feet of water from the storm, and we've still got 7 to 8 feet of water?"

In the working-class parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines, the heavy rain and levee break brought a wall of water up to 20 feet high. Local officials expect the number of deaths to be in the hundreds.

In one wrenching case, 30 residents in a nursing home died and 30 others were evacuated, said Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, who has been working with search and rescue.

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[MidwestTransplant]

1. This is the fault of that fould mouthed black NO mayor too, right.

Stick with the talking points people.

[Lindsay]

2. About time somebody got the word out about them.

A whole lot of that area has to have been just wiped off the map.

I can't even wrap my mind around the enormity of the failure.

Thanks for posting it, Will.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. I hope so too

:( And here I thought Bush wouldn't leave anybody behind. *sigh*