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| Sep 07, 2005 2:01 pm |
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re: re: Katrina - - If ever there were a need for innovation |
Bob Jasper
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I thought perhaps I heard it wrong last night when CNN first aired an interview with 3 college kids who had DRIVEN to New Orleans Convention Center and helped several people to "safety". They posed as newsmen with fake credentials. They said even though they had never been there it only took them about 20 minutes to reach the Center once they were passed the roadblocks. They said they passed a stream of empty buses heading in the opposite direction, out of the city. Apparently this was over the Labor Day Weekend. They drove a small car and had some film from the journey. They had no problem getting gas and "the lines were not that long".
Their goal was to go there and help as many people as they could. They said if they could have stayed longer they could have brought out many more. They said the people were trapped in the Convention Center not by the flood, but by red tape.
I don't know if their story is true, but CNN aired it again this morning. I tend to think it was. It is the kind of thing 3 college guys would do. If true it is a damning indictment of the rescue and recovery effort.
I also read a report yesterday by a British Columbia Urban Search and Rescue Unit that claimed it was the first, and for many days the only, search and rescue unit working in St. Bernard Parish. How is it possible that Canadians from B.C. could be first on the ground (in the water)? Another damning indictment.
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