Reply #125: All true. And how long will it take to get the water out of the city? [View All]

Are any of the pumps still going to be working? You have to pump the water uphill. And what terrible things will they find when the water is finally gone?

I get the feeling that the feds are just writing NO off and don't give a flying damn about the people dead and dying there, in the rest of LA, in AL and in MS. Bush is smiling and smiling in his photo-ops at McCain's birthday party. I'm sure he's sleeping very well tonight.

The horror of this is staggering. I can't get my mind around it. All those people out there right now, desperate for water, not knowing if their families will live or die, not knowing who else has been lost, not knowing how they will recover even if their lives are saved.

I have to wonder how much better the situation would be if the feds had responded as they should have, the promised helicopter delivered sandbags, everything was done to protect the levees and rescue the people. It's obvious that there were massive failures. Was this incompetence and callousness or part of some kind of plan, a LIWOP? Let it worsen on purpose?

I'm just yammering on here. I don't have family in the affected areas, and yet I feel loss and fear. I can't begin to imagine what this must be like for those who are there, those who have evacuated or are in the Dome not knowing what they will come home to, or for those with loved ones that can't be located. Or for the thousands of National Guards in the Middle East trying desperately to find out about their families back home.