Safe to say when the officials say to evacuate, evacuate. Also safe to say the officials should find a way to evacuate those that are unable to do it themselves, the poor, the handicapped, the sick. Cause of their negligence, there are doctors and nurses stuck in hospitals with their patients and no electricity, no water…

And police and fire, EMS services, they can’t evacuate either. Provisions need to be made in advance for those that have to stay behind as well as those that are unable to leave.

It should be obvious that the government can’t do it all fast enough to please people who want it done now. We’re an impatient society.

So what to do, make a preparedness kit, stuff you need to survive before the hurricane hits. Californians have earthquake preparedness kits, take a hint. Don’t wait for the government to do it, be responsible. Do it yourself.

Despite having a kit, one can still lose their house, their job, their everything in a hurricane. TTLB’s Blogathon is now at $473,409. Thou considering the damage, the relief effort will cost billions. Can donate all weekend too.

Update: Almost amusing, Bill O’Reilly’s talking points expand on my thoughts. Interesting coincidence.

Wind, rain, fires, looting and now the National Guard has arrived in force with food, 9 million MRE’s. On Friday, took long enough, of course it takes time to organize stuff. Mind you rescue efforts have been going on all week, $700 million/day being spent by FEMA alone.

Not to mention the major help offered by Texas - Houston, San Antonio, churches and individuals pitching in. Texas is awesome.

And now the President is in New Orleans calling the relief efforts unacceptable.

Course, set up a safe place from the storm where people can go and then they get raped in said Superdome, not exactly acceptable. And I can only imagine the smell and the excretement in the bathrooms. The entire city must stink too.

On the plus side, bloggers in TTLB’s spur of the moment Blogathon have raised $ 400,563, think that’s a bit more than the other Blogathon has raised. And it’s going to continue too thru the weekend.