A new Convention Center report

The article "Winds of fortune help evacuee escape poverty of New Orleans" is mostly human-interest, but it has some salient bits about the CC. Disabled vet Winfred Compton spent four days there, and says:

"I'd seen people die right next to me and not be able to get no help for them... To see other people suffer and not be able to do anything about it, it breaks my heart."

He got to the CC after:

...he and about 230 other senior citizens and disabled people who lived in a 12-story, high-rise apartment building realized that the building's staff had left them during the storm, he said. Police rescued all of the residents and brought them to the convention center.
Compton hesitates to talk too much about what happened inside the convention center during the four days he was there. However, he said, he still has nightmares about the experience.
"Finally (the situation at the convention center) got enough media attention that the helicopters started landing to get people out of there," Compton said.