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Originally Posted by spunkmaster
The red cross had thousands of bottles of water and food three miles away but the state wouldn't let them in to hand it out.
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According to this article
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/kat...oss/index.html
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Originally Posted by cnn
To set up a feeding station to feed a large number of people, you need space. You need to escort the personnel into position. ... And we asked Mr. Howell, and he concurred, to wait 24 hours to go to set that in," Mayeaux said.
By Saturday, however, the point became moot because the large-scale evacuation of the city was under way, Howell and Mayeaux said.
"After that point in time ... their rescue operation was in full force, and they felt they had adequate supplies there to take care of it without (the Red Cross) being introduced into the situation," Howell said. "So we did not go directly into New Orleans."
The National Guard began moving large quantities of food, water and ice into New Orleans and other damaged areas of southeast Louisiana on Wednesday, two days after the hurricane struck and a day before the Red Cross made its request to go in, Mayeaux said.
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The biggest problem right after Katrina was the large number of people who didn't evacuate...all of the city and state's resources were devoted to rescuing people from rooftops, they couldn't spare the personnel to escort the red cross into the city.
I agree it was a total clusterfuck and I'm amazed that we didn't recall our governor over the way she handled it.
That being said, you can't compare a fire to a flood the way it's being done here. They're not the same thing.