many local residents and even some public officials are expressing frustration over what they see as the snail's pace of rescue operations. U.S. Congressman Charlie Melancon, who represents the hard-hit district in the southeastern part of the New Orleans metropolitan area, says he expected the federal government to come in faster with all the resources needed.
http://www.voanews.com/english/katrina.cfm
I just cannot believe that we can go and set up as quickly as we did in Iraq, with communications systems, et cetera, and we cannot get that down in New Orleans,
i never thougth it would get this bad, this people is really sufering, look at some of the damge its pretty bad
Before
http://www.voanews.com/english/images/dg_new_orleans_msi_march9_2004_large.jpg
After
http://www.voanews.com/english/images/dg_new_orleans_msi_aug31_2005_large.jpg
Mnjul edit: The images were replaced with links because their filesize was too large