While those of us on dry-land are dealing with crap like this...
A gas station in Stockbridge, Ga., posts prices for gasoline from $5.87 to $6.07 per gallon Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe)
The people of New Orleans are dealing with a government that is still trying to get its act together. In the New Orleans Convention Centre, the backup rescue station to the Superdome, it's
chaos. The latest news from
CNN is that resources at the Convention Centre have run out according to the Mayor of New Orleans. The mayor calling it a
"Desperate SOS", has sent an e-mail to CNN. There is
NOT enough buses to evacuate everyone, so people will have to march out of the Convention Centre to find relief...
Update [2005-9-1 15:17:28 by Rimjob]:
CNN reporter on the scene just told Wolf Blitzer that the National Guard air-dropped food (MRE's) at the Convention Centre, but still nobody on the scene except the media...
"We are out here like pure animals. We don't have help," the Rev. Issac Clark, 68, said outside the New Orleans Convention Center, where corpses lay in the open and evacuees complained that they were dropped off and given nothing...
...Outside the Convention Center, the sidewalks were packed with people without food, water or medical care, and with no sign of law enforcement. Thousands of storm refugees had been assembling outside for days, waiting for buses that did not come.
At least seven bodies were scattered outside, and hungry, desperate people who were tired of waiting broke through the steel doors to a food service entrance and began pushing out pallets of water and juice and whatever else they could find.
An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.
"I don't treat my dog like that," 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. "I buried my dog." He added: "You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here."
Just above the convention center on Interstate 10, commercial buses were lined up, going nowhere. The street outside the center, above the floodwaters, smelled of urine and feces, and was choked with dirty diapers, old bottles and garbage.
"They've been teasing us with buses for four days," Edwards said.
People chanted, "Help, help!" as reporters and photographers walked through. The crowd got angry when journalists tried to photograph one of the bodies, and covered it over with a blanket. A woman, screaming, went on the front steps of the convention center and led the crowd in reciting the 23rd Psalm.
John Murray, 52, said: "It's like they're punishing us."
You can watch video detailing this situation at
MSNBC...
Here's more images & stories from New Orleans...
A man needing medications waits with other flood victims at the Convention Center in New Orleans, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, but many resident remained in the city and had to be rescued from flooded homes and hotels and remain in the city awaiting a way out. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Thousands of New Orleans residents gather at a evacuation staging area along Interstate-10 in Metarie, La., on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. The residents were either evacuated by air or walked to the Interstate to escape the city still besieged by flooding and no electricity. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
A man holding a baby uncovers the body of a dead man, suspected to have been sitting there for two days, outside the New Orleans Convention Center September 1, 2005. Several people among the thousands of stranded hurricane evacuees have died while waiting outside the building, with no sign of imminent help on the way. (REUTERS/Rick Wilking)
New Orleans residents appeal for help as they gather at a evacuation staging area along Interstate-10 in Metarie, La., on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. The residents were either evacuated by air or walked to the interstate to escape the city still besieged by flooding and no electricity. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Residents wait on a roof top to be rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans September 1, 2005. Authorities suspended an evacuation of New Orleans on Thursday after a reported shooting at a U.S. military helicopter and President George W. Bush urged 'zero tolerance' for lawlessness in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. (David J. Phillip/Pool/Reuters)
Hundereds flood victims wait at the Convention Center in New Orleans, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, but many resident remained in the city and had to be rescued from flooded homes and hotels and remain in the city awaiting a way out. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
A woman and her child wait with hundreds of other flood survivors at the Convention Ccenter in New Orleans, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Thousands of storm refugees had been assembling outside for days, waiting for help to come. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
New Orleans residents walk down the Causeway overpass searching for an evacuation staging area on Interstate-10 in Metarie, La., on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Thousands of people remain in the city besieged by water and no power. Many are sleeping or finding refuge on the cities roadway systems and seeking evacuation from the city. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Dorothy Divic, 89, is surrounded by onlookers who are trying to keep her alive on a street outside the New Orleans Convention Center September 1, 2005. Several people among the thousands of stranded hurricane evacuees have died while waiting outside the building, with no sign of imminent help on the way. (REUTERS/Rick Wilking)