The whole hurricane Katrina/Rita mess has just generally sucked here in Looziana. Duh?!? The hospital that I work at has had quite a few evacuees from New Orleans. Most of the stories are just heartbreaking. I don't know if NOLA will ever be the same. How can it?
Anywhoo. I worked tonight. One of the docs was in the station. He's been helping with the evacuees at the local shelters since they started arriving. He was talking about how hateful and pissy some of the evacuees were treating the medical staff. He was pissed.
I don't know what to think. I know how pissed off and irritable I was this weekend when my power was out for 50 hours. I can't IMAGINE what those poor souls have been through. Maybe they are just taking out their frustrations on the nearest person.
My point(if I actually have one) is this. I'm just pissed at the whole damn thing. New Orleans while a really cool place to visit, could be a scary place to be. The government (local and state) in my opinion just said to hell it with it a long time before Katrina. I'm 34 years old and have been hearing that NOLA would flood if a big enough hurricane hit. WTF?!? Where were the damn levee board members spending the money they got?
And...what the hell happened to the New Orleans Police Department? Y'all I'm FROM Louisiana-and I know/knew that there were areas in NOLA you avoided because they WEREN'T safe. We expected them to protect the people stranded? Ha. One of my friends noted that the caps the police were wearing said NOPD. No Police Dept. Damn.
Also-Kathleen looked like she was going to just have a come apart. She has royally screwed any woman that runs for that office in the near future. She gave every chauvinist ammo to NOT vote for women.
When I was sitting at home watching everything unfold on CNN, it was surreal.
When another nurse and I spent about 4 hours a piece trying to help locate a patients husband for her and the damned Red Cross lines were constantly busy. When I asked my mentally challenged patient where he was from and he said "the SuperDome". It got real. Real fast.
And y'all I'm kinda pissed.
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