To provide housing for tens of thousands of people for an uncertain period that could last months, officials were considering buying financially troubled hotels and apartment complexes or housing refugees in cruise ships and tent cities.Those of you who thought that Los Angeles or Hong Kong or Moscow would be the model for the cyberpunk dystopian city of the near future need to think again. New Orleans, what my friend
Just outside New Orleans, officials set up a staging point for the evacuation on the deserted Interstate Highway 10, the major east-west route out of the city. Army and Coast Guard helicopters were landing at a pace of three a minute and hundreds of heavy Army trucks disgorged sick, shocked and desperate victims in an endless procession of misery.
More than 3,000 people were rescued from across the flooded city, plucked by helicopters one by one from rooftops, loaded into boats or jammed into trucks. The Superdome, the sweltering home to an estimated 20,000 storm victims, was being emptied as fast as possible as officials raced against mounting fears of disease.
At the staging point, thousands huddled beneath the Causeway Boulevard overpass in search of shade and relief from the punishing heat while they waited for an intermittent parade of buses to pull up to take them out of their stricken city. They implored rescue workers and police for water and food, which at times during the day were in short supply.
A medical triage area was swamped with scores of sick, frail and elderly patients, many of them hooked to IVs and some still strapped to the doors that had been used as makeshift stretchers to pull them out.
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