jwaneeta

Sunday night I watched the Weather Channel. They spelled out, in excruiating detail, in clear, simple language, with bullets, the damage Katrina was going to do, as a category 5 hurricane about to slam into New Orleans.

For real. I'm a weather freak, and TWC has been running animated simulations of the New Orleans doomsday scenario for years.

Why didn't the Federal goverernment have the National Guard and US Army standing by and ready to move in to the stricken areas as soon as the storm passed? Why wasn't a relief strategy organized before hand and ready for immediate implementation?

Exactly. For the love of God, why? And it still begs the question of why it's been three days, and trucks have come and trucks have gone, and still nobody in authority knows his ass from a hole in the ground. At one hospital they took the most critical patients to the roof, having been told evac helicopters were on the way, and waited there all day and all night and into the morning. Patients began to die. "We thought they were coming," a angry, exhausted doctor told a reporter. "They said they were coming, but then the fed pulled the plug." And neglected to inform the hospital they weren't coming.

This is beyond ... it's negligent homicide, practically. Somebody needs to answer for this.