Disasters

I'm kinda bummed about the disastrous situation down in New Orleans. And intrigued and confused. Where are the rescue and relief operations? Is it just me, or wouldn't you expect a country like the U.S. to have the resources and the emergency plans to deal with catastrophies like this. I have been watching people crying on television and reading first hand accounts of the situation down there, and these people are without hope. They feel forgotten and abandoned. What is the problem here? Does the fact that they are 90% black and poor possibly have anything to do with the fact that no immediate relief and assistance seems to have been put into place for those people? I mean, where is everybody? I can't imagine the same scenario taking place if this was La Jolla, California, instead of New Orleans, Louisiana. So, I wonder. Come on! You have the resources to overtake a country of 30 million people in 48 hours, now how about sending a few truckloads of water down to this goddamn flooded nightmare of the place. There's children and elderly people desperately waiting for some basic things there. I don't know what to think anymore. There's something wrong, very wrong here. Just can't put my finger on what's going on, really. But I feel saddened ...