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To: Road Walker who wrote (248729)	9/2/2005 2:26:09 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572706

re: Yeah. The mayor claims there are 50k people still on roofs. Having been on a roof in the summer, I can't imagine being stuck on a roof for a week. They must be drinking the flood water. As anyone from this climate knows, if you are outside in August, even doing nothing, you lose a lot of water every hour. You wouldn't last 48 hours without hydrating, absolutely no way. God knows what kind of medical problems these folks are going to have from that "water stew", assuming they survive to get rescued. I just turned on the news.....right now, they are helicoptering people out of the Superdome to the Louis Armstrong Airport. I don't know where that is but you would not believe the way these people look. These two young guys.....I think they were tourists...........got off the helicopter with their luggage, barefoot......barely able to walk. They look just as the reporters are calling them......refugees. Its hard to use that term in the US.......very strange. ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (248729)	9/2/2005 2:35:05 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572706

"They must be drinking the flood water." Yes. As you note, the medical implications of that are staggering. Now they are say there are over 200k in New Orleans. The death toll will dwarf the WTC. There just isn't any way to avoid that. All because Bush gutted FEMA. If the levees had been reinforced, they might not have broken. Maybe it would have happened any way. But FEMA failed in all of its functions in a way that boggles the imagination. They might not have been able to do anything about the ones that drowned, although you have to think with more people doing S&R even that might have been mitigated. But the deaths from malnutrition, inadequate medical care and disease picked up from the conditions can be laid directly on their door step. There was just a complete failure to take the steps that have always been done in the past.

To: Road Walker who wrote (248729)	9/2/2005 2:39:36 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572706

I keep saying this.......its unbelievable.......I can't believe its happening. They just brought people in from Tulane Hospital. The hospital is completely surrounded by water........they finally cleared the parking garage top floor and flew in helicopters. The MDs are saying that they had to keep moving the patients to more secure areas in the building to protect them from the flood waters and from looters who were trying to break in to get hospital drugs. They rationed the food in the cafeteria. Some critically ill patients are near death. The MDs and nurses from Tulane are begging authorities to go and get their colleagues and their patients in two hospitals that are near Tulane hospital. The situation at those hospitals is even more critical than at Tulane and there are no parking garages on which helicopters can land to evacuate. ted