And they're out...

From the National Post:

Canadians find own way home
'It was just terror': Six tourists tired of Ottawa's unmet promises of help

James Cowan
National Post
September 6, 2005

Stranded among garbage and corpses outside a New Orleans shopping mall, a group of Canadians exhausted by threats of armed looters, dwindling supplies and unmet promises of rescue took a drastic step: They ran for it.

After waiting days for help to arrive after Hurricane Katrina struck, the six tourists left their encampment outside the Riverwalk Marketplace on Saturday, dashing through ravaged streets to a government checkpoint and finally boarding one of the hundreds of buses leaving the city. The tourists left the relative safety of their perch on top of an elevated walkway after concluding that help promised by the Canadian government was never going to arrive.

"Every light we saw, we thought it was them. We were expecting some Canadian government official saying: 'You're going home,' " Jay Weir, a member of the group, told the National Post. "Finally, I said, 'I'm sick of being lied to,' and we just ran for it."

.... And that really says it all.

Welcome back guys...

Regards,

Mark