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To: combjelly who wrote (545817)	1/23/2010 7:18:48 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578133

>> While many streets flooded, not all were deep enough to prohibit truck traffic. Nope. Just the ones that could get you where you needed to go.

To: combjelly who wrote (545817)	1/24/2010 1:31:02 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578133

I heard a description of a food drop from a helicopter in Haiti, which is why this was only tried a few times. The helicopter tried to land, but hordes of people surged in, giving it no place to land. So, then they got low and dropped the food and water, then watched as people near the drop zone were trampled and beaten as others attempted to get to the supplies. They just tried this 2-3 times before abandoning the technique. Where ever they went, people would surge to the helicopter sound.

To: combjelly who wrote (545817)	1/24/2010 2:06:13 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578133

I suppose like you forgot large areas of NOLA were inaccessible" I suppose it depends on what you mean by "inaccessible". Certainly boats didn't find those parts inaccessible. While many streets flooded, not all were deep enough to prohibit truck traffic. Especially the next day when the lake level dropped and the water in the city started to flow back out. Inode is desperate to prove that the US response to Haiti is as bad or not worse than the response to NOLA. We all have our biases and some of us lean towards one party or the other but I have never seen people who are so committed to the belief that their party and leaders can do no wrong. Obama has made mistakes.......same with the Dems. It goes with the territory. They are bound to make mistakes or they are bound to take positions with which I don't agree. To not find fault with one's leaders makes a person nothing more than a robotic ideologue. I think if both sides would admit when their leaders were wrong we might not be so divided.