Earth to FEMA!

This from the Associated Press: FEMA director Michael Brown said the agency just learned about the situation at the convention center Thursday and quickly scrambled to provide food, water and medical care and remove the corpses.

What the hell? I'll save you the stream of profanities I'm saying. The fact that the Convention Center was a major shelter site for New Orleans has been well known for DAYS you stupid f*cks! It's where they sent everyone who showed up at the Superdome when they decided the dome was full. The Center has/had 10,000 to 15,000 people in it. They've had no security there to speak of and virtually no food and water coming in. And FEMA says they didn't know about the situation until THURSDAY!?! WHAT THE FUCK??! Goddamn, millions of people all across the country knew before today that it was a crowded shelter that would need help. Who's coordinating things down there? Anyone? Anyone at all? Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable.

The Convention Center is where thousands were told to go. They did. For almost four days they behaved themselves for the most part while they waited for the aid that didn't come. As backed up by this story from this afternoon, the expected aid didn't come and the security didn't come. People started dying of dehydration and still no help... then as we know from other stories the riots started there.

How in God's name could FEMA, the Guard, etc. drop the ball so horribly on this one? Watch the video from the MSNBC link above. They've gotten no help. Up until at least this afternoon there were no authority figures there. Harry Connick Jr. went in a spoke to the crowd briefly and he was the only authority figure they'd seen lately... a musician.