I saw an official from the Salvation Army on Fox News state that they had set up 71 canteens within New Orleans on August 30th. I have no clue what that entails. How did so many people live for so long without water?

Lives were lost and it will take a long time to know just what happened. Stories from different television reports seemed to contradict each other.

I kept wishing that one of the television news people would save someone rather then give “eyewitness accounts” and say, "time for a commercial". One reporter did bring a lady and her dog to safety in the news helicopter. They said no pets were allowed to be saved with his/her owner. That would be taken care of by the SPCA. Want to bet?



>Your own ears appear to contradict this story on CNN:
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>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.redcross/index.html
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>"The national president of the American Red Cross, Marsha Evans, first made the request to undertake the operation during a visit to the state on September 1, three days after Hurricane Katrina struck, a local Red Cross chapter official said."
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>>What are you talking about? On the interview I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears, the Red Cross official plainly said they were pre-deployed with food, water, and sanitation kits before the hurricane hit. They were ready to go in Tuesday morning as soon as the winds had sufficiently diminished to set up shop BEFORE the levees broke. The State would not allow it. This post has ZIP to do with FEMA. This point directly shows the people at the Superdome, Convention Center and on the interstate hwy suffered needlessly because the State did not want to encourage those people to stay. They plainly wanted them to leave, but the State gave them no way out. There was NO reason for the State to block the Red Cross from those sites.