Anyone else do the math?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

We now have 1.2 million people without shelter, food, water or health care.

100,000 blankets are being brought in. (Thank you, mr. president)

4.5 million MREs (meals ready to eat) are being shipped.

WAIT a second. that equals three meals. Period. That will feed this crowd for one day. Assuming the meals get to each and every person (wildly optomistic for that to happen) After that, they starve.

Forget medicine for heart problems, diabetes, infections, etc. Those folks are walking dead, anyway.

10 people sharing a blanket each? (OK, you get it for your two hours, then pass it on)

And water - the most critical issue. Including sanitation, the average american uses something on the order of 27 gallons of water a day. The figures shrub mentioned would not cover 1/10 of the suffering population for half a day.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. The math is quite siimple

they are frozen in DC and this is a CAT 4 disaster, we need to request international aide, PERIOD

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Mexico, venezuela and Cuba, saving Bush's ass.

The irony would be incredible, if the need and emergency were not so dire.

[chelsea0011]

2. You left off the tons of melting ice.

[NMDemDist2]

3. yeah I did. you need 5 liters of water a day for drinking alone. more

in the heat these folks are enduring.

too little and two days late

:mad:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

15. no bathing, no cooking, no flushing.

and try carrying 5 liters around for any length of time. IT is HEAVY.

This is a horror developing.

[NMDemDist2]

18. nope, 5 liters JUST for drinking and it's heavy indeed n/t

[understandinglife]

5. DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE RETURN OF ALL NATIONAL GUARD ...

....UNITS TO THE USA, WITH THEIR EQUIPMENT.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4532959&mesg_id=4532959


Peace.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. That takes weeks, if not months. We don't have that luxury.

We have a growing emergency so dire and so huge that we risk the lives of hundreds of thousands in the next week or so.

[understandinglife]

9. They can have several 1000 of those troops out of Iraq and in the USA in .

... 72 hours or less.

Don't tell me about how serious it is, or what needs to be done.


Peace.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. please excuse, I am not lecturing, I am pissed as hell at our "leader"

that man is a menace.
and he will NOT do the right thing and start moving our people back home.

[understandinglife]

17. Thank you.

Peace.

[sybylla]

16. There's a 1000 Wisconsin NG at Fort Shelby right now

waiting for training and deployment to Iraq.

http://www.wisinfo.com/newsherald/mnhlocal/299640790430355.shtml

Can't imagine it would take much to get them involved if the chimp really wanted to provide assistance.

[crispini]

7. You are overestimating a bit.

We do NOT have 1.2 million people without shelter, food, water or health care, ok? The people in NOLA right now are the worst off, and there are probably 100,000 there. However, the people who got out are by and large being taken care of by the Red Cross, staying with relatives, or in hotels (until they run out of $$$, at which time they will go to the shelters.)

[crispini]

8. However, now that I think about it...

that DOESN'T take into account the people in surrounding parishes who could probably use some help.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. Biloxi? the surrounding communities?

How much of a stretch is it? if at all?

we are still dealing with close to a million homeless, more, probably without water and power.


Sure, NO is the sexiest issue, with all that flooding, but the destruction was a heck of a lot worse and much more widespread in Alabama and Mississippi.

[crispini]

11. Yeah, you might be right.

Didn't think about the rest of them. :scared:

[tedzbear]

12. The chimp is hoping half the refugees have cars and credit cards.

That may be true but they are also homeless and jobless. They will max out their credit cards soon.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. but without power, the cards won't be approved.

I suspect that we will see several classes of living - barter society, crime, and more developing. Even worse, it will be on TV, because they can.