Finally - Help for New Orleans
After 4 days of doing nothing, our government finally got their butts in gear….but not before many people died from lack of food, water, and/or medical supplies. It’s sad and it angers me to think that so many more lives could have been saved had our government been on standby and got right in there after the storm. So many people died needlessly.
NEW ORLEANS - The last bedraggled refugees were rescued from the Superdome on Saturday and the convention center was all but cleared, 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.
“The first few days were a natural disaster. The last four days were a man-made disaster,” said Phillip Holt, 51, who was rescued from his home Saturday with his partner and three of their aging Chihuahuas. They left a fourth behind they couldn’t grab in time.
Please help if you can by donating to The American Red Cross, or any number of other relief charities. You can find more here: One.org
