T&P&C to all the TE'rs in the Katrina area

[Irulan]

True, but there are make-shift field hospitals outside the Superdome (at least, that's what I heard on the news) where they are trying to triage people and prioritize the evacuation of the sick and injured. Probably something similar at the convention center.

It's hard to know what's really happening... there's what the media shows us, FEMA's version which is scarily santitized, and then there's what's really going on. It appears that today (friday) there's finally some movement, but as of last night's footage, I saw a lot of empty field hospitals outside of the city, and a lot of footage of desperate hospital situations in the city proper, with no power or water, WAITING for evacuation to the field units.

The big disconnect ( cnn)