Where is the Florida National Guard?
By WAYNE MADSEN My sister just found my 80 year old mother late this morning sitting in a state of shock in a Red Cross church evacuation shelter in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Wiith her were some of her neighbors, along with a number of the regular street derelict residents of the facility. She was forcibly evacuated yesterday afternoon with only minutes warning and only enough time to grab her medications, cell phone, and phone charger. Because the state of Florida waited so long to evacuate people along Dunedin Beach on the Gulf coast north of Tampa, my mother had to be carried into a bus by two firemen because the 70 mph winds from Hurricane Jeanne would have knocked her over otherwise. There were no provisions for anyone to sleep in the evacuation shelter, so my mother and several other of her elderly neighbors were forced to sit up all night on metal folding chairs. The Red Cross personnel provided no blankets or electrical outlets for evacuees to charge their cell phones. People at
