The US authorities were also castigated by British bus driver Ged Scott, from Wallasey, Merseyside, who was on holiday in the New Orleans area.
He stayed in the Ramada Hotel during and after the devastation with his wife, Sandra, and seven-year-old son Ronan. At one stage, Mr Scott, 36, had to wade through filthy water to barricade the hotel doors against looters.
He told the Liverpool Daily Post: "I couldn't describe how bad the authorities were. Just little things like taking photographs of us, as we are standing on the roof waving for help, for their own little snapshot albums.
"At one point, there were a load of girls on the roof of the hotel saying 'Can you help us?' and the policemen said 'Show us what you've got' and made signs for them to lift their T-shirts. When the girls refused, they said 'Fine' and motored off down the road in their boat."
By Tommy Tomlinson
Knight Ridder Newspapers
VIOLET, La. - The 22 people died together.
Police believe they tried to escape the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina lashed to one another with a rope.
Rescuers found them last week in this village just east of New Orleans.
No one has identified them yet. No one has tried to figure out who they were or how they knew each other or how far they had come before a rescue crew found them wrapped around a pole. ........
So Sheriff Jack Stephens can't give a lot of details about deaths in the parish. What he has is numbers.
Thirty died over at St. Rita Nursing Home. Eleven died down at the hospital at Chalmette.
About 100 bodies have been found in the parish so far. Stephens says the final count could be five times that many.
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