Documents show that Louisiana turned down help from FEMA

"A ranking Louisiana health official turned down federal offers to help move or evacuate patients as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, a newly released document shows."

"Two days before the Aug. 29 storm, HHS was told by the state‘s health emergency preparedness director that the help was not needed, according to an e-mail released Monday by a Senate panel investigating the government‘s response to Katrina."

Yes, just TWO days before the storm, Louisiana denied federal help. Just think of all the people who could have been taken to safety before the storm even hit. We'll never know how many lives could have been saved.

"At least 40 bodies, many of them elderly patients, were found inside a flooded New Orleans hospital after Katrina hit. Thirty-four patients at a nursing home near New Orleans died Aug. 29 in the wake of massive flooding brought by the storm‘s surge."

Interesting.