rather than retyping a response to that....I'll simply just paste what I pm'd to you
I have lived in the south all my life (daddy worked for the pipeline so we moved around a lot when I was little) We lived in an area of alabama that had so many tornado's that I remember more times waking up in the linen closet where my mother had put me than I remember waking up in my own bed lol and the part of north ga Im in get hit hard too...usually by the storms coming in from alabama. I have been in some VERY bad tornados.....seen people lying under their houses...seen people stuck in trees, seen people stuck in flash floods caused by the rain preceeding and following tornados. I've seen people so battered and bruised themselves that they later ended up inthe hosptial and somtimes in icu, helping these people because the news crews stood around doing nothing....seen them stand around while the emergancy crews couldnt get to us because they had so many other injuries along the way...seen them refuse to share their drinks with injured people...seen them refuse coats to people going into shock....I've been in more tornado's than one single person has a right to...and yes I will admit one or two times there was ONE person who would lend aid....but to stand there and refuse to give a person in terrible shock with bones protruding out of their body, or some piece of some building stuck in them somewhere aid, is just a very hard thing to take....and to remember
and I will add...you of course know, that a lot of little southern towns depend on volunteer EMS....and they arent in great abundance....lots of times they were home themselves and included in the destruction. In small towns it takes time for EMS to show up....but somehow not the media.....like I told you...Im a tad jaded and my heart breaks for the people affected by Katrina that could not (notice im not saying would not) get out of the storms path