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[arib]

Could someone explain to me *why* snipers would be shooting at people trying to evacuate from a hospital?

Also, why hasn't the National Guard or Coast Guard shown up and ventilated these people yet?

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[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Want an answer?

They think that by threatening the copters, they can make them come to them first, instead of going somewhere else. The folks that remain in New Orleans are either poor and desperate, or had the means to leave but were too stupid... and a few, very few, exceptions of dedicated people not leaving important posts.

As for the National Guard - they are coming. As a friend explained to me in email (He's with the Louisiana Army Reserve and National Guard) "THE CAVALRY IS COMING! RIDING HARD. We're pumping 10,000 troops into LA tonite. It took us more than a day to get a working airfield there.

The C2 was destroyed when the levees broke; the National Guard Command
center was destroyed; General Landreneau is running his war from the roof of the Superdome parking Lot, NOPD Command center was flooded out. It's a catastrophe beyond anything you know."

Perhaps they should have started staging earlier, but that would be a matter of it being insufficient Presidential priority, I imagine....

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

*nod* -- I'm not blaming the National Guard. Federal priorities? They should have started staging on Sunday. If he's not lying about not thinking the levees would be breached, then he needs to get new advisers, or maybe just pick up a newspaper. Maybe news.google.com should go on the presidential reading list.

There are some very thirsty, very angry people in New Orleans. Some people simply didn't have the financial wherewithal to leave. One person interviewed said it cost her $200 to evacuate for Ivan, and she simply didn't have that cash this time around.