Friday, September 02, 2005

Help has arrive in New Orleans!

Here I am in Sunny NJ and New Orleans is in chaos. I hear that the President is now arriving in the affected area. I can just imagine how he must feel about the failure of the response of FEMA and the local officials in the affected areas. Why in America, the land of plenty, can be in this horrific conditions.
The New Orleans City managers really let us down. How did they thought that poor people like the ones on the 9th ward could have gotten in their cars and leave their homes. They do not have cars, they have nothing, they do not trust officials, and they have very little education. How did they expect them to think in a preventive manner, so they could start evacuating the area as ordered by the officials? It seems to me that bull horns, buses, army trucks, and armed National Guard soldiers going from apartment to apartment taking the people away from their homes to safety. How could they think that the Dome could hold all the people in the poor section of the city? What did they expect from them, once they found themselves without water, food, power, and facilities for human necessities and health care. Unrest, lost of tempers, looting, lawless is expected after 24 hours lack of what is basic needs of human comfort. We here in America can not imagine lack of these comforts even if you are poor. New Orleans on the 5th day is now receiving the desperate help that they should have received much earlier. Thank God of that.
LetÂ’s hope that today things begin to start working like it is expected in America. I am sure that AmericaÂ’s generosity will engage into action and started demonstrating to our enemies that we are going to make it. I do hope we will rebuild New Orleans with much better levees.

1 comment:

Patsy Terrell said...

Bull horns... yes... bull horns... I've been wondering why no one has been using one. It seems like such a simple way to tell people what's going on - to give them some basic idea - some hope.