Posted on 09/03/2005 9:53:17 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor
As the National Guard delivered food to the New Orleans convention center yesterday, American Red Cross officials said that federal emergency management authorities would not allow them to do the same.
Other relief agencies say the area is so damaged and dangerous that they doubted they could conduct mass feeding there now.
"The Homeland Security Department has requested and continues to request that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans," said Renita Hosler, spokeswoman for the Red Cross.
"Right now access is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities. We have been at the table every single day [asking for access]. We cannot get into New Orleans against their orders."
[snip]
Though frustrated, Hosler understood the reasons. The goal is to move people out of an uninhabitable city, and relief operations might keep them there. Security is so bad that she fears feeding stations might get ransacked.
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Money would be better given to the Salvation Army and others.
The National Guard is right here!
People were ordered to evacuate New Orleans BEFORE Katrina!
As an engineer, I understand that this could become a real possiblity once they start pumping out the water. Right now, the pressures on the levee system are close to the same on the canal side as on the "populated" side, since the populated side is flooded. Once pumping starts and the water is lowered on one side, those levees whose foundations have been weakenen could easily give way.
There's also the possiblity that no real breach would occur, since there is always some amount of foundation saturation.
I suspect the COE is reviewing the as-built construction plans of the levee system to determine where the potential exists for any type of foundation failures once the pressures on the levee walls again become unequal.
Tell her to call the Houston Red Cross.
"They turned her down because "of all the disease" saying it was too dangerous. Huh????"
I have hear doctors interview they would NOT be going back into places like the dome and convention center because it was NOT safe. Now add to that a breeding toxic sewer, and what it is that our military is wading through it is NOT a good idea to expose any more than absolutely necessary to this death mix.
hear = heard
" there would be more people surviving to get out with some food and water coming in"
"As the National Guard delivered food ..."
There is food coming in.
Exactly...
Get the people out of the disaster area asap
Move them to a safe area...with camps set up in advance..
Hygeine becomes increasingly important to stave off epidemics..
The military bases being closed nearby might be good spots
to set up controlled areas..
Given some of these folks past behaviors...control is of the utmost importance to protect the innocent
imo
Maybe she's calling the wrong organization. They are currently begging for medical personnel at the Astrodome and Convention center in Houston.
Red Cross- future hostages?
It would appear so. Chances are that this person won't be allowed to speak with the press again any time soon.
My wife is talking on the phone to a friend of hers that's a nurse in Florida. She called the Red Cross and volunteered to come to Houston to help out. They turned her down because "of all the disease" saying it was too dangerous. Huh????
One theme that seems to be emerging is that the Red Cross is peopled by a bunch of dimwits and incompetents. I stopped donating to them years ago. I'll only donate to faith-based charities.
I was on a line in Kmart yesterday with a woman who's husband works with a cleanup company.
She said, he couldn't go in until the area is secure. Then she said she probably won't see him for a year.
I wonder if anyone will drive their Chevy to the levee...
(choke, choke. joke, joke.)
But the levee was wet.
Judging from the PR grovel fest on TV, the Red Cross is looking for a PR opportunity.
A way they can serve a $1000 soup kitchen with $25,000 worth of "administrative costs".
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We don’t talk too much about it
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Revel in your abandon
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