Distribution Problems?

Getting out of the Astrodome: One Member’s Story

Last night we went to find our family at the Astrodome, it is so sad over there, really sad. When we went to the dome, they had water, but they had no food. All they had was bannanas. They had food earlier, but they said they ran out. We were there for 3 hours trying to locate our family and they still had no food.

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We were walking up the ramp on our way inside to go look for them, and we saw a girl was struggling with her twins and her bags. So we asked if she needed some help. She had 2 twins that were about 3 or 4 months old– and a little boy that was about 2 or 3 years old. They were wet, with pee all over them, and they were hot and they were hungry. They were passing out in her arms, it was really so sad. There was no food for them. Me and my sister, we took the babies from her to help.

They tell us to call Red Cross, but when we call, no one helps, no vouchers to get clothes, no food stamps, nothing.

We have nothing. We ate outside a church today, but we have nothing.

Many dying at airport for lack of medical care

NEW ORLEANS Another desperate situation is unfolding in New Orleans — this time, at the city’s international airport.

Thousands of people are still in a medical triage center there, and many of them are dying because of a lack of medical care.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist — a surgeon who visited the airport today — says, “The hallways are filled, the floors are filled.” He says, “A lot more than eight to ten people are dying a day.”

Frist says the doctors and nurses there are doing a “great job.” He describes it as a “distribution problem.”

picture & caption via Nur-al-Cubicle