The people in the Convention Center

[atropa]

Has anyone heard anything about them? Have they gotten any food or water? Have any more babies died? No one on tv seems to be talking about it.

[RowanMegaera]

Here is a picture of my husband driving a forklift loading a pallet of MREs and water to deliver to them. He is the helicopter pilot, he just happens to know how to drive a forklift as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050901/480/ny13409012255 (http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050901/480/ny13409012255)

[Lunacie]

The National Guard arrived this morning in a convoy of flatbed trucks loaded with food and water and medical supplies. Probably not enough, but more help is on the way.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12537476.htm (http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12537476.htm) - in part:
With a cigar-chomping general in the convoy's lead vehicle, the trucks rolled through muddy water up to their axles to reach the convention center, where 15,000 to 20,000 hungry and desperate refugees had taken shelter - many of them seething with anger so intense that it seemed ready to erupt in violence at any moment.
National Guardsmen carrying rifles and wearing camouflage gear also arrived at the Louisiana Superdome, walking in a long line past a vast crowd of bedraggled people fanning themselves miserably in the heat, waited to rescued from the heat, the filth and the gagging stench inside the stadium.

Flatbed trucks carried huge crates, pallets and bags of relief supplies. Soldiers sat in the backs of open-top trucks, their rifles pointing skyward.

At the convention center, New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass got a hero's welcome as he rode down the street on the running board of a box truck and announced through a bullhorn to thunderous applause: "We got 30,000 people out of the Superdome and we're going to take care of you."

"We've got food and water on the way. We've got medical attention on the way. We're going to get you out of here safely. We're going to get all of you," he said.

[atropa]

Here is a picture of my husband driving a forklift loading a pallet of MREs and water to deliver to them. He is the helicopter pilot, he just happens to know how to drive a forklift as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050901/480/ny13409012255 (http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050901/480/ny13409012255)

That's pretty neat!

[Isil Darkmoon]

The convention center has gotten supplies--a small drop yesterday, then a much larger shipment today. It seems to be finally under control there, at least as far as simple food and water.

[Xander67]

conditions are still bad, but they aren't deteriorating anymore,, the Military is trying to help but there are just thousands and thousands of people.. it will take time, people need to try not to panic. (i know that was easier said than done )