Reply #53: NY Times says "helicopters have been dropping 3000 lb sandbags" [View All]

Has this actually, FINALLY started, or is the Times wrong? Reports from NO Mayor Nagin's own mouth yesterday and in the CNN article about it this AM said "no sandbags" and that Nagin was FURIOUS about it and was blasting the feds for what this delay had done to his city. But here's the rather limper quote from the NYT article, which totally bypasses these important charges:



The NYT article somehow fails to mention that the sandbags and other aid were needed desperately yesterday and WERE NOT THERE though they were promised. So I am suspecting that this report of the sandbags being dropped from the helicopters might be a mistake. Either that, or these drops have just started. We'll have to check. Even if they've finally started, it's unconscionable that the NYT failed to admit the monumental, catastrophic mistakes(?) that DELAYED these levee patching efforts until so much damage and deaths had occurred. Mayor Nagin has stated, and the NYT failed to report, that the delay added a month to the timeline for the city's recovery. And of course it has caused much more suffering and surely additional deaths.