Posted on 05/09/05
Chaos, disorganization epitomize rescue plans
NEW ORLEANS -- Here in the ruined and haunted city, choppers are thick in the bright blue skies; buses are lined up for miles on the edges of the drowned neighbourhoods; National Guardsmen with their M-4s in hand watch over empty buildings; armed military men wearing black hooded balaclavas pop out from around street corners in twos here and there, and convoys of various vehicles -- the bright orange Asplundh tree-service trucks, empty ambulances with flashing lights, Entergy utility trucks and even squadrons of grey Brinks trucks -- clog the highways.
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