"Aid"

Posted by Cookie Jill at Skippy:

a british tourist stranded for five days with his wife and seven-year-old son in a new orleans hotel has called the us relief operation a "shambles".

ged scott, 36, of liverpool, told bbc news hotel staff and guests had received no help from the authorities.police officers had taken "souvenir" photographs of stranded people begging for help, he added...he said at one point a group of girls was standing on the roof of the hotel lobby and called to passing rescuers for help. they [the authorities] said to them 'well show us what you've got' - doing signs for them to lift their t-shirts up. the girls said no, and they said 'well fine', and motored off down the road in their motorboat

....when they were finally rescued it had been by louisiana game wardens, who had entered the hotel with rifles and fixed bayonets, mr scott said. - bbc