Real Life Horror Stories - Escape From New Orleans

Some real horror stories from people stranded in New Orleans by FEMA... um, by Hurricane Katrina...

Escape from New Orleans, the harrowing tale of two San Francisco EMS workers in town for a convention

How We Survived the Flood by Charmaine Neville (yes, of the Neville family)

Rescue worker and evacuee diaries:

The Blog of a Socialist Worker's journey through the storm damaged areas

Dispatches from Tanganyika, New Orleans author Poppy Z. Brite's journal including her ongoing efforts to save her menagerie of 26 pets that had to be left behind at her house (14 recovered so far)

The Shattered Prayer, a very literate weblog of another displaced New Orleanian

Truth in Media... finally?

The government was attempting to block the US Media from covering any of the body recovery in New Orleans and Mississippi, but CNN stood up to them and won

It's amazing how much people start to care when they actually see the truth and not just scripted propaganda on their TV screens

And it's heartening to how citizens really react when not hand picked and made to sign loyalty oaths before "viewing" the royalty