Michele has an e-mail from a doc who's in the Ritz-Carlton on Canal Street in New Orleans.
The city now has no clean water, no sewerage system, no electricity, and no real communications. Bodies are still being recovered floating in the floods. We are worried about a cholera epidemic. Even the police are without effective communications. We have a group of armed police here with us at the hotel that is admirably trying to exert some local law enforcement. This is tough because looting is now rampant. Most of it is not malicious looting. These are poor and desperate people with no housing and no medical care and no food or water trying to take care of themselves and their families.
Read the rest at the link above.
via Rox.
Posted by Linkmeister at August 31, 2005 11:33 AM | TrackBackThis was very interesting, Linky.
I emailed the letter to my friends and family.
My heart goes out to these people, especially the sick.
The site of people dying in hospitals because there are not enough medications is heartbreaking.
It is almost as if any tragedy that had ever happened in the world has descended in Lousianna, Mississippi, and Alabama....
I hope it doesn't start raining frogs..... : ^ (