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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
Myself and Mrs H watched the unfolding news with great sadness. We loved the city when we went there 3 years ago and always talked about going back again one day.
However, questions have to be asked about the effectiveness of the relief operation. Why, 3-4 days after the disaster, are people still stranded in the city without food and drinking water? If the US can organise an army to be sent to the other side of the world, surely they can mount a rescue operation for thier own people more rapidly than this?
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Federal disaster declarations blanketed 90,000 square miles of the United States — an area almost as large as the United Kingdom. Death estimates still ranged in the thousands, with countless people missing, including rhythm and blues legend Fats Domino. The 77-year-old singer-pianist, whose real name is Antoine Domino, lives in New Orleans' low-lying, flooded Ninth Ward. Estimates of the damage reached $50 billion, by far the highest ever associated with a U.S. natural disaster.
Its now time for the blame and it will start at the top, FEMA, Homeland sercurity,Red Cross and of course the Police chief and Rescue crews they had a few days notice and still got caught off guard. (sound like when it snows in England) Facing blistering criticism for his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, U.S. President George W. Bush admitted "results are not acceptable" and pledged to bolster relief efforts with a personal trip to the Gulf Coast.
Speaking on White House grounds just before boarding his presidential helicopter, Marine One, Bush stopped defending his administration's response and for the first time criticized it.
"We'll get on top of this situation," Bush said before he left to tour the disaster zone, "and we're going to help the people that need help."
So hopefully help is on its way, some of the pictures just make you want to do something no matter how little.