[Dean]

OK, here are a couple of my issues.

Water... Lake Pontchartrain, Mississippi... Sound like sources of water to me... Boil it, drink it straight, whatever... Staying in the same place with thousands of other people with no water is not very intelligent in my opinion. Oh, and why don't these people have water? Water worked fine right up until it stopped. I saw one story where a hotel worker left her apartment to a bunch of stranded folks when she left and she had filled every possible containner in the place with water, including her tub. Probably a couple hundred gallons worth, and she was only one person.

Poor couldn't leave. OK, maybe that is true of some, but if everyone who owned a car had left, there would be a shit load fewer cars floating around.

I agree the feds should have reacted faster, but where is the personal initiative. And terrorizing/looting hospitals is just insanity at the best.

Why the gov. didn't hook up 100 box cars to some Locomotives , throw a port-o-potty in each and a couple 50 gallon drums of water and go get everyone.

Couple trains like that and the area is empty, and the rescue effort can focus on those who really can't help themselves like the sick, injured, elderly, etc.

Or hell, those school buses weren't under water after the storm, they got that way afterwards. Why did they wait for air conditioned buses from Florida to be brought in?

Again, I'm not saying there aren't things that should have been done, and the media is focusing on the worst stories possible.

Many of the people in New Orleans will be able to go home, the people on the gulf coast have lost everything, Where are their stories?

The media sucks. Why don't they strip their satelite trucks bare and haul food and water instead of satelite dishes, cameras and reporters. Anybody notice how nice and clean and well fed the reporters appear... Hmmm... Wonder if there is much chanting when there are no cameras around?

Where is the imbeded reporter suffering along with the mases keeping a video diary on a $299 hi-8 cam in his backpack? No story there I guess. Where are the stories about all the heroes and teamwork??? Not very sensational I guess.