Quote Originally Posted by mjs1973
Even Fidel Castro has offered to send 1586 physicians and 26 tons of supplies.
That's pretty amazing. I don't know if Cuba felt any of this storm but they're certainly not new to hurricanes being in the Gulf. Of course, the reporters got there right away. Sure, we all wanted to see what was going on so we flipped on CNN, and there have been more journalists than rescuerers there early on. If they got there so quick, why couldn't more help? I don't know if there are any other cities of 1/2 a million people that are on the coast and below sea level - but the whole world knew it was coming. Like it's been said, for some people getting out before it hit just wasn't an option.

That weather forecast is really scary. I've never seen anything like that before. I've seen conditions that were really bad out on the great lakes - bad enough that any type of rescue out on the water would be difficult at best - and they've never used language like that before to describe it.