God Spare New Orleans

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In the blur, stories that stick:

The Convention Center with the elderly and babies in the heat. One nurse there doing her best.

Charity Hospital, critical patients, including those being hand ventilated for days, no relief, wait and watch while Tulane's staff, able bodies, are completely evacuated from across the street. Charity's sick must wait another day. Public vs. private.

Hiatt Regency guests arrive at the Superdome where thousands were still waiting days for their turn to leave by bus and are allowed to jump to the front of the Superdome evacuation bus line. The haves and the have nots.

One New Orleans fire department/division has been working from boats, basically on their own, in the 9th ward and has rescued over 900 people from roof tops. Amazing heros.

Grassroots relief: Citizens driving into MS with food caravans of their own. No red cross in sight.

Separated families.