News from the gulf

[grrrr]

One of my firefighters called in today. This just floored me:

"PK and TR drove a truck with food, water and other supplies from Montgomery, AL to Gulfport, arriving in Gulfport late last night.
P and T are the first help that any of these stranded people have seen - no one has been down there yet, not even the police. That is incredible considering they arrived the night of Sept. 8 and the storm hit around Aug. 30.
The devastation is beyond anyone's comprehension, like a nuclear bomb went off, P said. It was the hardest hit of all the areas.
Entire houses look as though they have been imploded. There are gigantic piles of debris all over the place.
He said they were driving down the highway and everything as fine until you hit the wall of devastation.
P said he wanted to warn anyone who was coming into the area (like AS) to be prepared for what they would see, if it is even possible to prepare oneself.
Their job is to help the people who are alive and continue to distribute supplies. They're going to try to take one woman who is in pretty bad shape to a nearby church. There aren't even any shelters established in the area yet."

[Mcwop]

Good report. The devastation in MS and AL have been overshadowed by NO.
Is it true that the storm surge went inland some 12 miles in MS?

When you consider an area the size of Great Britain being hit, that is a lot of ground to cover.

[bdog]

Thanks for posting this. Information of this kind needs to be brought to the forefront. The fault for poor responce is not with the National Guard, Red Cross, or EMS (including wildlands fire fighters). It is with FEMA and the poor organization and inability of FEMA and Homeland Security to deal with this. Yes, the scale of the disaster is incredible, but it was predicted to be so and FEMA should have been ready.

[Super G]

Yes, the scale of the disaster is incredible, but it was predicted to be so and FEMA should have been ready.

Don't you people understand that Bush and his buddies who he appointed to run FEMA don't care about helping the American public? It's not that they are totally incompetent, they just don't care.

[Grange]

One of my firefighters called in today. This just floored me:

"PK and TR drove a truck with food, water and other supplies from Montgomery, AL to Gulfport, arriving in Gulfport late last night.
P and T are the first help that any of these stranded people have seen - no one has been down there yet, not even the police. That is incredible considering they arrived the night of Sept. 8 and the storm hit around Aug. 30.
The devastation is beyond anyone's comprehension, like a nuclear bomb went off, P said. It was the hardest hit of all the areas.
Entire houses look as though they have been imploded. There are gigantic piles of debris all over the place.
He said they were driving down the highway and everything as fine until you hit the wall of devastation.
P said he wanted to warn anyone who was coming into the area (like AS) to be prepared for what they would see, if it is even possible to prepare oneself.
Their job is to help the people who are alive and continue to distribute supplies. They're going to try to take one woman who is in pretty bad shape to a nearby church. There aren't even any shelters established in the area yet."

Thanks for sharing someones perspective who is actually there.