I have been wondering why there was no food at the Superdome.
Thursday, 8 September 2005 by Jacob TomawLast week the officials in NOLA were complaining about the evacuation effort being inadequate at the Superdome. The evacuation may have been inadequate, but the situation could have been better if there were food and water. It is very quietly being reported that the Red Cross was not allowed to bring food and water to the Superdome by the Louisiana State Homeland Security Department.
Major Garrett at FOX News reported it last night and here is the story from All Headline News (one of only three I found on Google News).
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September 11th, 2005 at 11:10
They knew from 1998 (Hurricane George) that the Superdome was not a good place to use as a shelter.
They knew that and still used it. Then they denied the shipment of food because they didn’t want people to stay and USE IT AS A SHELTER.
The Mayor waited until the day before the storm hit to order the mandatory evacuation. (He had been tracking for days) It is amazing that as many people got out that did. Hurricane evacuations aren’t speedy processes. Maybe a little more time and they could have taken care of the people that had to stay behind.
And where was the Louisiana National Guard? The Governor is in command of her state’s army. She waited until two days AFTER the authorize them to commandeer school buses to evacuate people. Oops! The buses are sitting like drowned rats in New Orleans. Where was the guard for the first two days? Couldn’t they have helped with the evacuations?
There were missteps by others up the chain that failed to fill in the gaps left by the local and state governments. But make no mistake, the Mayor and Governor should be the first in line to accept responsibility for this disaster response fiasco.