Reply #4: "Red Cross refuses to set up emergency storm shelters in New Orleans?" [View All]

[flpoljunkie]

By evening, the city's few escape routes were spectacularly clogged, and authorities acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of residents would not get out in time. The stranded will not be able to turn to the Red Cross, because New Orleans is the only city in which the relief agency refuses to set up emergency storm shelters, to ensure the safety of its own staff. Even if a 30-foot-high wall of water crashes through the French Quarter -- Maestri's worst-case scenario -- stranded residents will be on their own.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20277-2004Sep14.html

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And we are asked by everyone to send money to this organization. Do people know this about the Red Cross? I find it extraordinary.

Tweety just reported that as of yesteday the Red Cross had received $72 million dollars in donations.