-- The evacuation from the Super Dome in New Orleans to the Astrodome in Houston has been halted because helicopters are being shot at and fires being set around the dome to keep the buses from reaching it.
100 troops (National Guard, probably) are being sent to get the disturbancs around the dome under control. "We need a thousand," observed an EMS worker who was in the thick of things. -- Adding to the chaos, the area is swarming with refugees from other areas who heard about the bus convoy to Houston, but did not hear that only the Super Dome residents were being evacuated for the time being. Nobody is telling the refugees anything; they have to depend on picking up rumors. -- Two Louisiana state senators, on their own initiative, got hold of two buses and sent them to the Super Dome to evacuate people who were ill to Baton Rouge. But the buses were commandeered by Southern Bell to transport some of its workers out of the area, claiming they took priority over the sick people. Some of the sick people were put on the buses anyway, but they had to sit in the aisles. (This from Fox News, which is really doing yeoman work in this crisis--vastly better than CNN.) -- On ABC this morning, President Bush said, "Nobody could have anticipated that the levees [in New Orleans] would be breached." -- Teams of Canadian medical and other aid workers on their way to the Gulf Coast to help out have been stopped at the border and not allowed to enter the United States. -- Homeland Security Secretary Alan Cheroff held a press conference this morning to announce that September is National Preparedness Month. You can't make this stuff up. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
