Posted on 09/01/2005 6:56:22 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
NEW ORLEANS — A 2-year-old girl slept in a pool of urine. Crack vials littered a restroom. Blood stained the walls next to vending machines smashed by teenagers.
The Louisiana Superdome, once a mighty testament to architecture and ingenuity, became the biggest storm shelter in New Orleans the day before Katrina's arrival Monday. About 16,000 people eventually settled in.
By Wednesday, it had degenerated into horror. A few hundred people were evacuated from the arena Wednesday, and buses will take away the vast majority of refugees today.
"We pee on the floor. We are like animals," said Taffany Smith, 25, as she cradled her 3-week-old son, Terry. In her right hand she carried a half-full bottle of formula provided by rescuers. Baby supplies are running low; one mother said she was given two diapers and told to scrape them off when they got dirty and use them again.
At least two people, including a child, have been raped. At least three people have died, including one man who jumped 50 feet to his death, saying he had nothing left to live for.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
As someone so succinctly put it on Hugh Hewitt last night, this is what you get for years of government hand-outs.
Heheheh. Steve does a checkmate on Skin Crawl.
While there are innocent people suffering, it looks like that place has more than its share of thugs. And that group of people will destroy any place they are put up.
Pardon my posting this comment. I have two threads open and this was the wrong one.
After years of living off the "Check" and other social
programs alot of these folks have no idea how to care
for their families.
True, not the most enterprising of the bunch.
I think that the "refugees" are (for the most part) WIC, AFDC, etc, dependent persons who now get to rely upon more gubmint handouts....a permanent underclass maintained by the govt.
And to think some people despise illegals who put their children on the school bus to get an education while they work their a??es off all day.
These 'citizens' had an opportunity to board busses headed out of the city for safety and didn't take it. They could have at least gotten their children out.
Just like home.
This disaster is bringing out the best and the worst in people. My thoughts and prayers are for the innocent and goodhearted ones who are trapped and for those who are doing everything they can to help them.
It is difficult to comprehend the real extent of this horror and sickening to see the small percentage of people terrorizing their fellow citizens and hampering the rescue efforts. We can't let the evil actions of this group cause us to harden our hearts to the suffering of the innocents.
Blessed are they who show mercy: mercy shall be theirs.
My dogs wont do that
I stand corrected, and you are also correct. What I meant was, a breech of the levies the day after the storm wasn't expected. All indications were that N'Awlins had dodged the bullet.
Whoa! What is so wrong with what he pointed out?
You're the one who sounds like you can't handle the reality of how bad people (society) have become...
Stop making sense...there's no room for that here.
I am amazed full on rioting has not broken out. I think it can only be credited to the skills of the National Guard working in the Superdome who obviously are calming and controlling an unruly desperate army of refugees.
Tough situations call for a tough response.
Motherf'ing monsters.
It doesn't happen elsewhere, why should NO be an exception?
Get out of Iraq New Orleans NOW.
In a word....Yep.
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