The Tragedy of New Orleans

It's utterly depressing to hear about all the needless suffering which is still occurring down south...

The Story of the Hurricane

"A 2-year-old girl slept in a pool of urine,"” [Los Angeles Times reporter Scott Gold] wrote in the Times, describing the scene at the Superdome. ... "“Crack vials littered a restroom. Blood stained the walls next to vending machines smashed by teenagers."

Canadians Beat U.S. Army to New Orleans Suburb

The Canadians beat both the Army and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. disaster response department, to St. Bernard Parish east of New Orleans, where flood waters are still 8 feet (2 metres) deep in places, [Louisiana State Senator] Walter Boasso said.

Frustrated: Fire crews to hand out fliers for FEMA

Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of training, the whispering began: "What are we doing here?"

As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta.

Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of the Dead

Forced to defend what some critics consider its slow response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from New Orleans.

If there was ever any doubt as to the levels of ineptitude and corruption which permeate the Bush Administration, there isn't any now... We can only hope there's a special place reserved in hell for these bastards.