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[katallison]

In contradiction to the headlines at CNN's website, New Orleans station WWLTV reports that the last people left in the Superdome and convention center have finally been gotten out of there. (See entries timestamped 4:23 and 4:47.) What's still unclear is how many dead bodies were left behind. What may never be known is how many of those dead would still be with us if either the evacuation, or at least the provisioning of food and water and medicine, had been conducted with any sort of dispatch and competence.

I am, in any event, enormously glad for those who did survive and get out. And I'm selfishly glad that I can close down the part of my brain that's been running scenarios all week of the suffering going on in there.

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[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And yeah, I hate that part of my brain too.
The evacuees have enough other problems without having coem through the gates of hell like this.
They do say it's a curse for a soldier to have a good imagination, even if it may help him save *everybody*'s lives now and then.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I'm just having to cross-post all kinds of your good stuff.
Thank you!!

[c-regalis.livejournal.com]

And I'm selfishly glad that I can close down the part of my brain that's been running scenarios all week of the suffering going on in there.

Oh, I am so with you here. I didn't commented on any post about Katrina. (I'm in Europe and I feel that I am just not qualified to judge.) But I am so glad for those who got out.
Thank god it's over.

[c-regalis.livejournal.com]

That's I didn't comment, of course. *sigh*