New Orleans is no longer singing the blues, it's living it.The relief came in after 6 days. When a natural disaster strikes, even the first world country becomes like a third world country. People just take whatever they can find and they can eat on the streets, stores or trash. And the male species always has to use the extra limb they have got to devastate the already devastated.
Believe it or not - the people of New
Orleans could die from dehydration
despite the city has just been showered with plenty of H2O. Roof-top sun-ROASTING is what the people there are forced to do now.
It's estimated that there are a million stranded in the watered-city and only 15,000 people are moved out of New Orleans daily now. From the report I saw, the pets are not allowed to board the fleeing buses. Those who could not respond to the government announcement of evacuation before Katrina hit the common denominator was low-income earners+no vehicles+sick. On top of that, they were predominantly African American.
Instead of fighting a war that might not be won, I hope the Americans will take care of their homeland for the time being. However it's ironic to see that the Americans are always the first to come to aid when world disasters take place. When it comes to the Americans' turn, we don't see too much of help flowing in internationally. Is that the price the US pay for being the Big Brother of the world?
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