UPDATE ON NEW ORLEANS:
Thousands finally reached the designated 'safe place,' the Superdome, yesterday. They have been outside, on a raised concrete platform, for 12-24 hours now, wondering when someone will come for them.
They see the air full of helicopters, but none are coming for them. Why not? Well, they are still trying to find people worse off than them. Just yesterday the helicopters rescued over 3000 people, plucking them out of houses where they were trapped, or up from the waters where they were floating, still alive.
The government has already called this the worst disaster to ever hit this country. We are also making effective, heroic rescue and relief efforts, the biggest ever for such a disaster. Yet it is so far from enough that appalling death rates are expected. And no doubt, still increasing.
This is not only a time for giving, but - as the governor of Louisana keeps saying - for prayer.
Pray for them!
They see the air full of helicopters, but none are coming for them. Why not? Well, they are still trying to find people worse off than them. Just yesterday the helicopters rescued over 3000 people, plucking them out of houses where they were trapped, or up from the waters where they were floating, still alive.
The government has already called this the worst disaster to ever hit this country. We are also making effective, heroic rescue and relief efforts, the biggest ever for such a disaster. Yet it is so far from enough that appalling death rates are expected. And no doubt, still increasing.
This is not only a time for giving, but - as the governor of Louisana keeps saying - for prayer.
Pray for them!
posted by Old Neocon at 9:24 AM
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