Why isn't anyone asking why the MAYOR of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana aren't doing anything. They should have had a plan in place for years. Instead, the mayor, ... New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, is on "Good Morning America".
This is no time to be a star. His city is chaos, people are looting, starving, and dying, and he's on
Good Morning America!
They should have been building up the levees all these years, and updating the pumps..I think most of the levees were built during the depression, and the pumps were older than that.
The two of them are in hiding, telling the people to get out..HOW are they suppose to get out, and WHERE are they suppose to go? That's some planning!
"Nero fiddled while Rome burned!!!!"
ABC News
Governor Orders Evacuations in New OrleansGulf Coast Struggles to Reach Hurricane Survivors As Gov. Kathleen Blanco Orders Evacuations
Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, a day after Katrina passed through the city. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
By BRETT MARTEL Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS Aug 31, 2005 — The flooding in New Orleans grew worse by the minute Tuesday, prompting Gov. Kathleen Blanco to say that everyone still in the city, now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers, need to leave.
She said she wanted the Superdome evacuated within two days, but it was still unclear where the people would go.
Along the Gulf Coast, there was simply no time to even count the dead. Engineers scrambled to plug two broken New Orleans levees and rescuers searched for survivors clinging to both hope and rooftops as the swirling, tea-colored water continued to rise.
To repair damage to one of the levees holding back Lake Pontchartrain, officials late Tuesday dropped 3,000-pound sandbags from helicopters and hauled dozens of 15-foot concrete barriers into the breach. Maj. Gen. Don Riley of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said officials also had a more audacious plan: finding a barge to plug the hole.
Riley said it could take close to a month to get all the flood water out of the city. If the water rises a few feet higher, it could also wipe out the water system for whole city, said New Orleans' homeland security chief Terry Ebbert.
A helicopter view of the devastation over Louisiana and Mississippi revealed people standing on black rooftops baking in the sunshine while waiting for rescue boats.
"I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour after touring the destruction by air.
All day long, rescuers in boats and helicopters plucked bedraggled flood refugees from rooftops and attics. Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu said 3,000 people have been rescued by boat and air, some placed shivering and wet into helicopter baskets. They were brought by the truckload into shelters, some in wheelchairs and some carrying babies, with stories of survival and of those who didn't make it.
"Oh my God, it was hell," said Kioka Williams, who had to hack through the ceiling of the beauty shop where she worked as floodwaters rose in New Orleans' low-lying Ninth Ward. "We were screaming, hollering, flashing lights. It was complete chaos."
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