"Nah, we'll be alright." "Everybody else is getting out." "Can't be arsed mate." "It's going to be really bad." "They always say that." "Well we're off then." "Yeah see ya.....................aaaaargh! Help! This is all george Bush's fault!"
"There were some people who did not have the basic means to leave and I blame the city for that," he said. The officer, who was black, added: "There was no plan. There really should have been a plan for a deal like this. [The ones who could not leave] were poor folks mostly; most are blacks. It's not through any fault of their own [they could not leave]." Some of the people the officer was talking about were just a few hundred yards away. At the Park Fontaine Apartments, residents without running water or electricity - or, indeed, any hope that things would change quickly - had placed a large white sheet on the floor of their car park. It was a message for any rescue helicopters passing overhead and it said in large black letters: "Need water food." Diana Boylston, 39, is a teacher in some of New Orleans' sink schools. She escaped, but has been unable to track down any of her pupils: "My students have the saddest, most heart-wrenching lives. Their parents are on food stamps, lots are on drugs," she said. "None of their families would have had access to a car or any other means of getting out of the city. The projects they live in were the first to go under. I have tried to instil hope in these kids for so long - but now I'm desperate. I think they are dead. "Two of them, Dwight and Dwan, are twins who I am very close to. I called them on Monday morning at about 4am to try to persuade their mother to take them to the Superdome. But she was out. Their neighbour explained she was going to make them 'stick it out' as God was on their side and wouldn't let anything bad happen. "I spoke to them again on Monday morning, just a few hours after the storm hit, but I have heard nothing since. I am so worried. Their homes would have been the first to go under. "People in the poor, black-dominated projects have suffered the most."
a hell of a lot could get out but chose not to if the dome bowl thing holds 75,000 people and 25,000 were in it then isnt that 50,000 spare seats?
