WTF People?!
Guadian
By BRETT MARTEL
Associated Press Writer
"Blanco said she wanted the Superdome - which had become a shelter of last resort for about 20,000 people - evacuated within two days, though was still unclear where the people would go. The air conditioning inside the Superdome was out, the toilets were broken, and tempers were rising in the sweltering heat. 'Conditions are degenerating rapidly,' she said. `It's a very, very desperate situation.'"
Who organizes this shit?!
Come on! Now's the time to use resources--
technology, skills, networks, and compassion--
Get those people out of there!
You--Baton Rouge, Montgomery, Jackson, Monroe, and Tuscaloosa!
And even--Houston, Dallas, Little Rock, Memphis, and Atlanta!
And, yes, wider--
Why does it take two planes and two towers
to get people to respond quicker and more efficiently?
Does a suit in a high rise
warrant more urgency
than a t-shirt on top of a trailer?
Get your asses together. Geez.
posted by SquirrleyMojo @ 9:33 AM
11 Comments:
They're bringing the Superdome people here to Houston.
20,000 people is alot of people to move.
There's talk that they'll be put up in the Astrodome, which has basically fallen into disrepair for the past decade. I'm not sure the conditions there will be much better than the Superdome, but at least it will be easier to get basic supplies to them.
Thanks Paula for sharing that info--so glad to see that my blog gets immediate results!
So the Astrodome isn't the Hyatt, but it's gotta be better than 3 feet of standing water.
Woot Houston! I always knew Texas would be good for _something_. ;-)
Wow. Valid points there, squirrley. Wow. 20.000 people to Houston. Wow.
It's America....we have more resources than most of the world. it should have been done by now.
Great post
It seems that there is never enough preparation for a crisis this huge.
And until something horrible happens, it's hard for the disaster relief orgs to get the funding they need to prepare.
It's an awful, vicious cycle.
Has anyone seen 'Supervolcano', the docu-drama on Discovery?
I recommend it, for a pretty realistic view of how powerfully limited the govt's ability to aid thousands (or millions) of people in a disaster.
Good points MC--
and it looks like the media is anticipating my (and thousands of other's?) reaction to this crisis.
So my question becomes, is America responding well? Or is the media taking "another angle" by anticipating what their readers might want to hear (ie. "something uplifting and, gulp, positive" for once)?
I don't know.
I just don't want any more people to die.
Or go without a toilet. Stomach cramps can be the worse.
They should put them in the Staple Center (at least that's what I think it is called.) It's the mega church in Houston for the guy that wrote a book recently. It's huge. There's plenty of chairs for everyone.
I watch what is going on over in LA. God bless those people is all I can say. They need a lot of help right now. I have a spare bedroom!
Well put.
Well that's heartening to hear about the lack of help in a disaster since I live along the San Andreas fault in Californy. Yet I would take an earthquake any day to what they experience elsewhere. And when the big one comes...and we know it will... dropping off into the ocean isn't such a bad thing...I'll just surf back to shore on the tsunami. It will be the second coming...really.
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