Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler OT: Katrina and World Support?

Actually, I'm with Riffman on this. Unless there is a massive "stealth" relief effort and everyone being relieved is also being hidden away from cameras, the response does seem oddly slow. I'm sure the media is getting things wrong a bit, but the bottom line seems to be that we have about a half million displaced people, in a very hot part of the country, with little or no drinking water, and days are going by. Everyone on the radio here is babbling about food and rebuilding, but after 2-3 days without water people are going to start dying in larger numbers... I'm darned close to loading the Jeep up with a few hundred gallons of water and driving down there myself.

This was one of the big problems after the tsunami as well... lots of water around, but once you mix a few hundred million gallons of sea water in you can't drink the stuff any more.

I really hope I am being too negative on this...