This is so sickening, especially the later part of this article about the hospital staff that were stranded with so many patients, and having to be with so many patients who died because intensive care was not possible....45 in all stacked in the chapel when the morgue filled up.
It was so not necessary. Just because a female Democrat Governor didn't want to appear that she couldn't handle it and refused to turn over the helm to the President of the United States.
And even still, the Marines there aren't allowed to do more than peer in windows looking for dead, etc. because Governor POS Blanco won't allow them to have any law enforcement powers, like breaking into the houses to check for corpses or possibly survivors.
The Marines are totally disgusted with being forced to spend so much time trying to see in mud smeared windows...it's so inefficient for the kind of work they are trying to do.
If the gov and mayor were a couple of straight white males, this story would have a whole different spin.
If you don't want something killed, the Marines are the wrong people for the job. We have plenty of National Guard troops available. The Marines should not be doing this work.