Well, that pretty much proves that point - not everyone has the benefit of your experience Nute, and obviously if I was there I'd be joining the queues of apparently clueless people looking for a clean water source instead of boiling the other.
Considering the area is prone to hurricanes and there was ample warning of Katrina's advance, plus the whole 'we didn't know the levees were going to break in a category 4 storm' pissweak excuse, the fact funding has only been passed today (according to the news sites), I'm finding that unacceptably slow. Like I said in the original post, disaster aid was on it's way to the areas hit by the tsunami in December within 24 hours. The government's had four days, and this isn't a third world country like most of those in the tsunami-affected area.
Perhaps I'm being overly critical and not understanding how things work in the States, but it just seems to me a complete ballsup. And as much as comparisons shouldn't be made, I can't help comparing what I'm seeing now to what I saw of relief after the tsunamis, and there's so much difference. Then again, a lot of the people affected by the tsunamis weren't shooting at aid helicopters. *wry*
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Date: 2005-09-02 01:39 pm (UTC)Considering the area is prone to hurricanes and there was ample warning of Katrina's advance, plus the whole 'we didn't know the levees were going to break in a category 4 storm' pissweak excuse, the fact funding has only been passed today (according to the news sites), I'm finding that unacceptably slow. Like I said in the original post, disaster aid was on it's way to the areas hit by the tsunami in December within 24 hours. The government's had four days, and this isn't a third world country like most of those in the tsunami-affected area.
Perhaps I'm being overly critical and not understanding how things work in the States, but it just seems to me a complete ballsup. And as much as comparisons shouldn't be made, I can't help comparing what I'm seeing now to what I saw of relief after the tsunamis, and there's so much difference. Then again, a lot of the people affected by the tsunamis weren't shooting at aid helicopters. *wry*