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To: combjelly who wrote (276113)	2/22/2006 8:08:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579128

"I understand but we are talking about people having to look for the dead bodies of their relatives because the city of NO doesn't have the money and Washington is refusing to give it." It is not just New Orleans. Same thing has happened in Louisiana outside of NO and Mississippi. Whole communities have disappeared, with people living in tents. And when people gather enough resources to try to clean up, they still find a body every now and then. I don't know what to say. It strikes me as bizarre. Last nite, they showed a woman losing it on CNN. She and her siblings had been looking for their mother for 6 months and no one would help them. They had been evacuating Gulfport or NO, I can't remember which, and they had their mother on a hospital bed pushing her down a freeway. A helicopter landed, looked the mother over and took her to a hospital. That was last August........they never heard from her again. Someone from Gov. Blanco's office saw the woman lose it on CNN, and began an investigation. It turns out the mother had died the next day and had been in a morgue for six months. I can understand the confusion that ensued the next few weeks after the hurricane had hit......but six months?? That smacks of indifference/incompetence, not confusion.