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Originally Posted by garinda
Cashman and myself spoke about this over a brew this afternoon.
The people who are suffering may live in the richest country in the world, but a lot of them aren't rich and have lost everything and will face weeks if not months before basic ammenities are restored.
All this plus the threat of disease, a tragedy, the people sheltering in the Super Bowl in unbearable heat and no sanitation was heartbreaking.
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Your are quite right, about 28% of people who live in the New Orleans area are below the poverty line and although there was a mandatory evacuation of the city, many of these people had no real means to get out. The authorities would be well advised to fill the area in and build the city somewhere else, ie. not below sea level and not surrounded on three sides by bodies of water.
Two people actually died in the bowl where they were sheltering because, although the building was designed to withstand 200 mph winds, part of the roof came off. These poor souls are now being transferred by buses to a similar bowl in Houston, Texas in order to take them away from the obvious dangers of falling masonary and disease. It's a very sad state of affairs.
