Post to Americablog: Pumps in NOLA Slowed...by Body Parts

[Gloria]

not online, apparently, just in the print edition....

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/09/water-pumps-working-to-empty-new.html


Water Pumps Working To Empty New Orleans Slowed...By Body Parts
- 9/08/2005 08:12:00 PM

In a gruesome detail that reminds us of the terrible human tragedy we're dealing with, USA Today reports -- in an item on page A5 which I can't find online -- that water pumps are being slowed because the pumping stations themselves have to be pumped out. Furthermore:

Officials are also being slowed in some locations because of fear that human remains could be mixed in with the debris, clogging pumps.

Horrifying and sad. And some of them didn't have to die.