It is as hard to get in there as it is to get out! And they have put guards where they could as the guards managed to get there. Even cops, firemen and the military have to rest sometime. The policeman and national guardsmen and fireman from the N.O. area have themselves lost their homes, family members and have little food or water. They have tried their best, and worse than anyting will have to live with the memories and guilt of everything they could not do; the people that they could not get to and save. For years I have heard about the corruption of the city officials and the levee board in N.O. But even if they are as corrupt as some say, they could never have imagined how bad things could get, I don't think anyone really could have. I have a feeling though that the mayor will really be taken to task. He should have been there and we should have seen more of him. In so many cases the only way that people have gotten information was through a reporter telling his anchor in NYC or Atlanta who then relayed it to the next reporter in the area. There is a reason that one of the comments we heard is N.O. needs Gulianni.
Perhaps in the future when people are told to evacuate, they will. Perhaps the city management that calls for the evacuation will make sure that all the buses, including all the school buses go from neighborhood to neighborhood and pick up people and deposit them in shelters and that they do this over and over again until a stand down order is given and everyone including the drivers go to the shelter. PErhaps when if comes down to it, that is something that the National Guard can help with before the storm hits. Yes it will be expensive and yes people will complain, especially if they do all of this and spend all that money and then the hurricane dies down or turns and misses. N.O. tried to do that but it was too late and on too small a scale. Plus you have to imagine that not everyone listens to the news or talks to their neighbors. Perhaps from now on hospitals and clinics will be required to keep a list of all the patients they have seen or discharged that may be at risk handy. Perhaps the hospitals that are on higher ground if not all, will automatyically recieve special protection as soon as something happens. Again sadly they did not predict how the thugs would react. There is no perfect system, there is always an element of mankind that surprises us by how inhuman they really are. Those aren't humans running around killing, raping and stealing. They are animals and should be shot on site.
The children's hospital was guarded early this morning. But how many guards can you and should you put on a hospital when there are people two streets away dying because they can't get out of their homes. As for the superdome, one must realize that with all the people in there it is virtually impossible for anyone to police every nook and cranny and look around clusters of people. Frankly they should take the rapists and rioters that are in the dome, tie them to a pole or column outside overlooking the water and leave them to the rest of the crowd to deal with.
Ok maybe that is too cruel, I guess they should just be taken out and shot! Already because of the few who are creating havoc, many more will die today and tonight because they had to pull the cops back to stop the mobs instead of going from house to hose and floor to floor to find those that are still alive but haven't been able to get out. I tell you, they are lucky it isn't me there in N.O. I love, love, love people, and will give them the benefit of the doubt over and over again. But I hate, hate, hate disrespectful, selfish people who hurt others and this breed shouldn't be allowed to grow up and breed! Any one of those beasts I caught pillaging, and raping would get pretty much the same punishment as they used on thugs so many years ago. I would shoot them, string them up as an example and then go back to the important business of saving lives! Neither the police nor the national guard should have to deal with this while people are dying!
Sorry, but this is really making me mad!
Getting off my soap box... M-C