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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (40015)	9/1/2005 6:26:00 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

What's up with all the radio reports I've been hearing all day today about thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to NO over the next several days to try to restore some semblance of law and order in that bedlam? Just a minute ago, I heard the DC National Guard is going. The coordinating agency of the National Guard reportedly has a rule that no more than 50 percent of a state's National Guard Forces can be deployed to other locations--the remainder have to stay in each state. (so I hear on radio) And what's up with all the radio reports I heard earlier today about helicopter rescue lifts from the Superdome being suspended because the helicopters were being shot at? Rumor? Or fact? I agree that much of the response to this catastrophe is a little late and planning was a little deficient (such as the decision to pack thousands of human beings into the Superdome without supplies to sustain them, even for 24 hours or so)....but let's exercise a little less rhetoric/rant and try to understand that the blame for this lies with Mama Nature, and few people expect a hurricane crisis to get worse after a hurricane passes. This might be the only time a city has sustained MORE damage AFTER a storm than it did while the storm was occurring???? (not sure)