Unbelievable, the poor guy breaks down on national TV. His director of emergency services mother dies as he is trying to deal with the catastrophe in his parish.
Update [2005-9-4 11:26:1 by SteveLCo]: as Southern Bird points out below, the the director of emergency services' mother kept calling him up asking when help was going to arrive. He kept saying "soon momma", this went on for five fucking days. His mother drowns because no one could get there. I thought Mr. Broussard said this man's mother lived in a nursing home, but I may be mistaken.
Update [2005-9-4 11:51:39 by SteveLCo]: inclusiveheart below asks that a link be provided to Maryscott O'connor's
diary entry on the continuing catastrophe. Reading this diary, one wonders if there was a reason FEMA wanted to cut those emergency communication lines. Maybe so no news could get out?? But our government wouldn't be that callous, would it?? Nah, I'm just hitting tin-foil hat territory here, right?
Russert tries to blame BlancoNagin and Broussard is having none of it. He goes down an entire laundry list of the failures of FEMA. He unequivacly blames the feds. He tells us that FEMA turns away water from Wal-Mart what the fuck are these assholes thinking? He said FEMA cut
emergency phone lines to his parish, what the fuck were these people thinking? His sheriff had to fix it and
post armed guards by it to keep it from happening again!! Astounding.