9/20/2005 Blink

• FEMA allowed people to die of thirst at the New Orleans airport.
• New Orleans historian Douglas Brinkley : Federal officials stood around doing nothing, afraid to get their nice starched shirts dirty, while volunteers saved New Orleans.
• New Orleans levee system almost total loss -- would not withstand even a small storm at this point.
• FEMA refuses to help people in need if their mortage and insurance companies are swamped and unable to fill out the paperwork they need. From WWL-AM: Families forced by FEMA to live in cars as homeless people.
• Those New Orleans municipal employees are such slackers...
• 1/4th of New Orleans restaurants won't come back. Neither will many musicians such as Aaron Neville. New Orleans in danger of losing its cultural heritage...
• FEMA plans to house people in mobile homes result in instant ghettos.
• British MRE's destined for disaster area to be destroyed by U.S. government because they aren't USDA-approved.
• Maker of water purification gear can't find anybody willing to take donated purification equipment in Gulf area. (FEMA? What FEMA?).
• ... More to come ...