Hurricane Watch
I've been watching Fox News on and off since Sunday and for the last few hours straight and just now Shepard Smith was reporting on how hundreds of people have been emerging from the projects to the nearby elevated highways to escape the flooded streets and nobody is telling them where to go or giving them assistance. He asked a cop several times about it and the fuckwit ignored him and then Smith justifies the action by saying the cop has no answers because he doesn't know and I'm thinking, all this time official after official has been going on about all the relief strategies that have been put in place and there's been loads of rescues with choppers and so on, yet hundreds of people, maybe thousands are left to bake on these highways with no information or assistance, treated as if they don't exist. It's obvious they are there, they're being broadcast for god's sake, yet the people just a stone's throw away at the dome are being loaded on buses and assumedly supplied with food and water, while these others suffer. I can't fathom this situation. There's images of people with babies and disabilies walking the highways aimlessly when a simple truckload of just water would be nice. There's vehicles driving along the roads so I assume they could do that. I just can't understand it. It seems like a huge oversight, as if the rescue teams only care about what is right in front of them or maybe they don't think people have their live's threatened. I don't know, having no drinking water for possibly 12 or so hours, wading through polluted water, many people already sick, sounds pretty threatening to me.
You hear all these officials high up talking about their strategies and they sound well planned yet things like this that are staring them right in the face aren't addressed. I can't believe that there aren't supplies for these people but maybe there aren't, it seems like most of the attention is on the people sheltered in the dome though, and getting them to Houston.
Fox News shows the same footage over and over while they have different people reiterating things over and over. It's monotonous but I like watching it. It's awe-inspiring and unbelievable. But this St5udio B show actually has a story with interviews of the people that have endured the terrible conditions. It makes me wonder why the rest of the coverage is so shit.
This natural disaster is gradually becoming more severe the clearer the picture gets and to hear things like they might not get power back in New Orleans for a month just blows my mind, but then you think of the Tsunami and the total devastation. this is a different type of disaster being in an urban area but just as amazing. I feel for all those affected and glad I live in a place that never sees any type of natural disaster. I might think it's a shithole but at least we've never endured anything even remotely like this in 20 years.
You hear all these officials high up talking about their strategies and they sound well planned yet things like this that are staring them right in the face aren't addressed. I can't believe that there aren't supplies for these people but maybe there aren't, it seems like most of the attention is on the people sheltered in the dome though, and getting them to Houston.
Fox News shows the same footage over and over while they have different people reiterating things over and over. It's monotonous but I like watching it. It's awe-inspiring and unbelievable. But this St5udio B show actually has a story with interviews of the people that have endured the terrible conditions. It makes me wonder why the rest of the coverage is so shit.
This natural disaster is gradually becoming more severe the clearer the picture gets and to hear things like they might not get power back in New Orleans for a month just blows my mind, but then you think of the Tsunami and the total devastation. this is a different type of disaster being in an urban area but just as amazing. I feel for all those affected and glad I live in a place that never sees any type of natural disaster. I might think it's a shithole but at least we've never endured anything even remotely like this in 20 years.