Re: ANGER & SADNESS!
I think one thing people fail to realize was the lack of communication-like you said (crazybaseballmom) but not only from working together like I think you meant-BUT the DAMN phones would not work. Cell phone towers had been knocked down and regular phone lines underground and otherwise destroyed. To this day you cannot call anywhere in the affected areas and they have a hard time calling out. I am in Baton Rouge and after the Hurricane passed and we did not get any more people to our shelter it was assumed that people were ok. In St. Bernard parish which was harder hit-they could not call anyone for help.
In some areas where people did stock supplies for the hurricane it was either destroyed by wind damage or flooding so it would not have helped anyway. The supplies that were stocked for the Superdome shelter residents were completely destroyed. The police, firemen – no one had any food and water for days. When we started to receive people from the Superdome up here they were shocked to see the TV and see what happened. They had no idea. All they know was they went to the Superdome Sunday or Saturday. They were fed and given food and went to sleep Sunday night. Monday morning the hurricane hit. The lights went out, people panicked. Tuesday the water started to rise, still no light, now no food, no water, sewage backed up into the dome and the people in charge say you cannot leave. They had no idea the whole city was flooded. They felt like they were put in there and forgotten about with no food and water. People ( a few young guys) had brought guns in there and started to shoot in the dark. Gangs started to fight each other. Women were attacked and some raped. Children were snatched from their parents arms. All of this in the dark. When people would hear fighting or shooting people would start to run around and there would be almost a stampede because it was so dark. When the police would try to go in some people would try to take their weapons away from them in the dark and attack them.
The same goes for some of the people rescued off the roof tops. They did not know the WHOLE city was flooded until they were up in the plane flying over it. Some of them thought it was just their neighborhood and when is someone coming to get me???
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