Just got back in and got a call that Fox is reporting that there are still 30,000 people stranded at the New Orleans Convention Center. There are no buses. What in heaven's name is going on? These reports are just insane.

Secondly, why on earth are they repeatedly putting several thousand people in large stadiums? This report makes clear it is a recipee for a security nightmare, crime, violence, health problems...Why not disperse them by settling them at motels or camps etc. after they get registered by the Red Cross and given the basics? More on this from Harvard's Jennifer Leaning:

..."I fear the worst is yet to come," said Jennifer Leaning, a Harvard University public health professor who is helping with the Red Cross relief coordination. "No refugee population in the world lives like this. There is a vast need for at least a little personal privacy. The sanitation problems, disease, and civil unrest will grow. To think that we can house people in the open in these vast shelters like the Superdome and the Astrodome for more than a couple weeks is delusional."

(Thx to SS).

Posted by Laura at September 2, 2005 11:33 PM