i know... i don't know if i'm naive, i'm sure there are aspects i'm not aware of, but i don't see how this can happen. no food, no water, no shelter, for all these people, it's insanity. i can't imagine the desperation these people must feel, but how can it be so difficult for these agencies to get their acts together and feed these people? i... it boggles the mind.
At the risk of sounding like a dick, I think part of the problem is the way Americans respond to disruptions in their way of life. Also, it's a damn hurricane that destroyed the city. I think reports of 'living like animals' are, in a way, to be expected no matter what, because all of New Orleans got knocked over and flooded. There's a lot of anger that's coming from the belief that somehow all this bad shit could've been avoided if the government just 'did a better job'. I'm not so sure about that. Even if they have been fumbling the ball.
It's the biggest hurricane disaster we've seen in the U.S. How could it not be terrible? Banding together and working hard to minimize that pain seems like the solution.The media doesn't seem to be focusing on any positive actions taken by the refugees, and I have a hard time believing that they're not.
I honestly think a lot of the disaster could have been avoided. Besides the studies done years ago predicting that this would happen if the big enough hurricane came by, the city seemed to have nothing prepared knowing that the hurricane was no longer hypothetical. For the most part, those that had the means and the places to go got the hell out of there. But there were so many people left with no car or way out and no where to go if they did have a way out. I think that is where the federal government/Red Cross (somebody) could have taken over. We knew this would be a disaster. We knew New Orleans would turn into a big pool of water. It should not have been an option to stay. If the proper procedures had been taken ahead of time, busing people out, finding a place for them to stay while their *empty* hometown was destoryed, I think we'd be talking about a much smaller death toll. And we'd also be less worried about people "living like animals" because there wouldn't be as many people left that were forced to live (or die) that way.
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