What do you honestly think you would have done?

[DutchgirlRN]

What do you think of the nursing home where 32 of the patients were left to drown? If you did everything you could to save whoever you could save would you have swam to the roof once the entire home was flooded and you could not save anyone else? I really can't fault anyone for saving themselves once they have done everything they could do to save patients. What do you think you would have done?

The owners were seen shopping in Mississippi and the authorities believe they are trying to get out of the country. I hope they can be caught and prosecuted. According to one of the family members they assured the families that the patients would be fine, they had an evacuation plan in place, had buses ready and when the worse happened denied they needed an additional help. They were able to escape to the roof, get on a boat and then disappear.

[glascow]

What about the hospitals in New Orleans that did NOT evacuate their patients knowing that a Cat 5 was staring them in the face????

What are the stories from the nurses there?? Were they mandated to stay??

Where were the generators located, above ground level??? Why didn't they have enough fuel???

Has anyone heard the truth of these stories??

Unfortunately, yes I have heard the truth of these stories, first hand. I was in a city where many of the refugees who had been waiting on roofs, then 1-10 for days was evacuated to. They all had a story.

I am also friends with many of the nurses who worked at those hospitals, and have heard their stories. I am familiar with the disaster policies in our louisiana hospitals, not even the BEST disaster plan could have prepared anyone for this. I read that a storm of this magnitute only occurs about every 200 years. How can you prepare for the unimaginable? The damage this storm caused was worse than they had even predicted had it hit land as a category 5.

To read some of the most accurate reporting visit http://www.wwltv.com

it is one of the local New Orleans tv stations. Read Katrina's blog for latest news.