I'm Afraid

I'm afraid of what's happening in my city, to my people, to the public servants still there struggling to protect them from the harshness of the post-apocalyptic environment and from eachother. Why haven't troops been moved in already? Why isn't New Orleans already under martial law? The local law enforcement is stretched to its limits, those people have already been up for days on end with no hope of resting in sight! The doctors and nurses of Charity hospital have had to baricade themselves inside for protection and are so dehydrated that they've started IVs on eachother! Is Bush really going to let these people die of exhaustion or thirst?

If America can move into a disaster area in other countries within 48 hours and gain control, why can't we do it now on our own soil? It's wrong for President Bush to treat New Orleans this way!

Good News

Just received word that Charmaine is alive and has been rescued, thank God, but she's been through a horrible, traumatizing ordeal.

Found out that my dad didn't just drive out of New Orleans as I naively believed, but was escorted out by a convoy of hired armed guards in buses who arrived at three in the morning to smuggle the guests and employees out of the Double Tree Hotel, they were out by three in the morning; The guards were armed with machine guns and assault rifles and hung from the doors and windows of the buses as a show of force.