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Pastimes : Hurricane and Severe Weather Tracking

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To: redfish who wrote (3131)9/2/2005 7:07:16 AM
From: redfish  Read Replies (1) of 26112
 
Alastair Leithead, New Orleans, LA : 15:05 GMT

A few moments ago a man came up to me and asked if I was a journalist. He said: "Can you help me? I need to save the lives of 60 women."

Twelve blocks away there are 60 people in an old people's home and 30 staff who have been looking after them since the hurricane struck. He said they had enough water to last 12 hours, two of the women had died already and three more will probably die today.

"Who can I ask?" he said. I said I didn't know and he wandered off. The policemen wouldn't talk to him so he's gone off to try to find someone who might help.

That's just one isolated case and there are many more like that across this city. It is a desperate situation. There is a real feeling here that not enough is being done and certainly not fast enough.

news.bbc.co.uk
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