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 Post subject: I got to go to New Orleans today...
PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:32 pm 
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I know some are probably tired about this and me but some probably care. Anyways, my dad works for the District Attorney here, and if you call the DA will send somebody to find/pick up your relative. So I went with my dad to the airport where they are dropping off the people that our saved so they can be evacuated. We were there to bring a doctor back who worked at charity hospital.

It was absolutely horrific. Never have I seen something so disturbing. The smell was undiscribable. It was so bad that urine was a welcomed smell. There were huge sections of old people laid out on cots who could only be described as dying. The baggage belts were make shift beds. People were everywhere, and so were staff infections. I overheard one nurse say unless you're dying get out of the medical line. Choppers were all over the place and so were machine gun armed national guardsmen. But the it was one cluster fuck and there was absolutely no communication. I had a lady ask me where to go after she had just come off a chopper. Also people were asking me to bring them with me. I've never been to downtown Somalia but I would imagine it would look like that. My dad who is usually very stoic and unphased remarked, "I've never seen anything like that. It was worse than I imagined." I did find that the people were generally trying to help one another and there were no problems.

One bit of good news I was able to get to my car and it was fine. I couldn't bring it back because the lot was barracaded. Still it's there and it starts.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:40 pm 
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was there any governmental organization at all or just a cluster fuck as it appears on tv?

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I can't imagine being in that situation of having my entire city destroyed, contaminated, and rioting.


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:44 pm 
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rparis74 Wrote:
was there any governmental organization at all or just a cluster fuck as it appears on tv?


Absolute cluster fuck. There's tons of organizations there, but they are not communicating and it does not seem like anyone is in charge. We walked around looking for information since we were trying to find someone, and all we got was "I don't know". Literally, people were getting off choppers and wondering around trying to find out where to go.

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Good fucking christ.

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Good fucking christ.


what you said....


glad your car is still there. must be a real P.O.S. :wink:

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it seems like this is a cluster fuck beyond capacity. They stopped sending buses to the superdome, three tons of food sat out in the sun for hours while Bush was flying around above the devastation... it's just exasperating. What's more petrifiying is that state of the refugee camps right now. i can only hope that they fix this right and now just set themselves up for this to happen again.

they just had the mayor of Hattiesburg, MS on CNN super pissed, "FEMA who?", and Aaron Broussard this morning was heartbreaking. god i need to get away from this television.

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