Post by Gator on Oct 28, 2006 20:49:56 GMT -5
I'm sitting here, remembering the sight I'll never forget. I drove into the disaster zone until I reached the water's edge. Every kind of boat that could be parked in a suburban yard was there, piled on top of one another. Everything from $60,000 V-hulls to tiny canoes, flatboats, boogie boards, even someone's backyard deck, ripped from it's pilings was used to escape the flood. Seeing them there was a haunting testament to the mass Exodus that took place in Lakeview, Gentilly, the east, 9th ward, St. Bernard, Plaqu. Parish.
As I set up my EMS post, I had all kinds of cameras stuck in my face. Reporters from all over the world made it there that day. Know who wasn't there? FEMA. To this day it still makes me mad as hell when I think about tens of thousands of people who desperately needed help, and no one came. Not just civilians, but municipal and parish governments who did their absolute best, with no help from the one government agency in this country that has only ONE purpose.
The one thing I still remember was the smell of the dead...still remember that smell.
As I set up my EMS post, I had all kinds of cameras stuck in my face. Reporters from all over the world made it there that day. Know who wasn't there? FEMA. To this day it still makes me mad as hell when I think about tens of thousands of people who desperately needed help, and no one came. Not just civilians, but municipal and parish governments who did their absolute best, with no help from the one government agency in this country that has only ONE purpose.
The one thing I still remember was the smell of the dead...still remember that smell.