Monday, December 3, 2007

Stories from Survivors

Food was sent too late; people starved before they got any aid.

Police would not come out of their cars.

National Guard cars rolled by, empty except for soldiers with guns, pointed at us.

Load of water dropped by helicopter, exploded on impact.

Military police did not give a man water for his baby; she died before them.

Wal-Mart wanted to provide water for survivors but was told not to go into New Orleans. The army would handle it...

The LSU scientist mentioned earlier compared the situation to apartheid South Africa (he himself is South African, originally).

FEMA didn't accept offers of aid from Amtrak, medical companies, etc., and so on, and so on. Wow...

Former FEMA director Michael Brown said the Bush administration asked FEMA to lie about how well things were going. (His Wikipedia entry is very much worth reading.)

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