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Damn. It was very enlightening as well as heartbreaking and rage inducing. The absolute incompetency of government and just general indifference to human suffering. So many lives could've been saved if an effort had been made to evacuate the elderly, the disabled and those with no means to evacuate themselves (no cars or other transportation, no where to go, no money, etc). Just an absolute stain on this country.

But also Lt. General Honoré is a bad@$$. I have mad respect for him. He did all he could in the face of some bull crap. He called out a lot of the lies coming out of the city -- the "snipers on rooftops" reporters were claiming (didn't happen) and the "rampant crime and looting!". The people were starving, they had no drinkable water and waded through chest high, filthy flood waters to get to dry ground so, in their place, I'd have totally "stolen" some dry clothes, clean shoes, canned food and diapers for my kids, too. The "snipers on rooftops" came from people stranded on rooftops who would shoot up in the air so the rescue crews could hear them as they passed by on boats. But once a game of telephone was played it became "people on rooftops shooting" to "snipers shooting at everyone from the rooftop!". The press really played that story up.

I was in MS and lived through the storm myself. We were without running water for a couple days and no power for about 8 or 9 days so everything I heard about NOLA was second hand, after the fact, people passing on news stories they saw. It was hard here but a mere drop in the bucket compared to New Orleans. I guess my brother "looted" too because he worked as a manager at a store back then (I won't call the name but it's a chain store everyone would recognize). He and his boss meet up a couple days after the storm to pass out non-perishables from the store to people. He took home a pack of diapers himself for his youngest who was a baby at the time. We were not "cut off" by flooding as they claimed NOLA was and it took way too long for help to move into our area as well. Things were starting to look a little dire in the supplies department for a moment there. (It's funny to me that the National Guard, reporters and camera crews from every network could get into New Orleans but somehow it was "too flooded" to get people out?).

Ok, sorry for the rambling. A good watch if anyone is interested.