Tired of waiting for trucks to come with food and water

Tired of waiting for trucks to come with food and water, residents turned to each other.

Sir, they were told like me. Every single day. The cavalry is coming. On the federal level. The cavalry

is coming. The cavalry is coming. The cavalry is coming. I have just begun to hear the hooves of the

cavalry. The cavalry is still not here yet, but I have begun to hear the hooves and were almost a week

out.

Three quick examples. We had Wal-mart deliver three trucks of water. Trailer trucks of water. Fema

turned them back, said we didn’t need them. This was a week go. We had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on

a coast guard vessel docked in my parish. The coast guard said come get the fuel right way. When we got

there with our trucks, they got a word, FEMA says don’t give you the fuel. Yesterday, yesterday, fema

comes in and cuts all our emergency communications lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff,

Harry Lee, goes back in. he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards said no one is getting near

these lines.

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The guy who runs this building I’m in. Emergency management. He’s responsible for everything. His

mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said. Are you coming.

Son? Is somebody coming? And he said yeah. Mama. Somebody’s coming to get you.. Somebody’s coming to

get you on Tuesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on

Thursday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Friday. And she drowned Friday night. And she drowned Friday

night. Nobody’s coming to get us. Nobody’s coming to get us. The Secretary has promised. Everybody’s

promised. They’ve had press conferences. I’m sick of the press conferences. For god’s sakes, just

shut up and send us somebody.