Dammmit, where's all this aid?

[JustSayNO 2 Sheeples]

All I keep hearing from the interviews of people with the Red Cross/Salavation Army, etc. is "we are ready with 500,000 meals and water", etc. But people are digging through rubble for food. Where the hell are all these meals and the water??

[Horse with no Name]

1. They can't get in

:(

[jim3775]

2. The roads are impassible

and people are being evacuated. It is impossible to transport large quantities of food and water into the city.

[BlueStateGirl]

3. They can't get to a lot fo these places. Roads are flode dor impassable.

[AuntieM1957]

4. both New Orleans airports are closed

word I've heard is lots of FEMA and Red Cross people came through Houston today.

I guess they're planning to drive in.

[riverwalker]

5. C 130 Helicopter

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=28

Could airlift supplies of food and water, AND airlift citizens out of there. Would be perfect...if only they were not all in Iraq.

[AuntieM1957]

6. perhaps Halliburton could donate some staff to help out

or do you think we'd have to PAY THEM?

[Kenroy]

7. this shit just doesn't happen

you have to GET there.

And right now, nobody can.

[ofrfxsk]

8. Most of them cannot get to where the Red Cross is and vice/versa

[magellan]

9. They cannot go in until paths are cleared and stations can be set up

We didn't see the water/ice trucks till a few days after Charley. The logistics are far worse in NOLA.

[JustSayNO 2 Sheeples]

10. What? No military?

I'm not necessarily talking about New Orleans itself. The rubble sifters are being filmed outside NO, such as in MS. But New Orleans does have one way in and out right now, according to the interviews with officials I've heard.

I love the one call-in question I just heard on Larry King "Since they knew about this so far in advance and were getting ready, where the heck is the military? .... uhhh.. IRAQ?