1 Million People Can't Go Home for Months

sabra

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Tue Sep-06-05 06:47 AM
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1 Million People Can't Go Home for Months

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090501629_pf.html

1 Million People Can't Go Home for Months

The vastness of the displacement created by Hurricane Katrina became more clear yesterday as officials struggled to respond to the needs of more than 1 million people who will be out of their Gulf Coast homes for months to come.

So many homeless people flocked to Texas in the past few days that Gov. Rick Perry (R) declared that his state was full and could take no more. Electronic highway signs in Houston directed bus drivers with evacuees to Fort Chaffee, Ark., but that facility quickly filled up as 9,000 people arrived within 16 hours Saturday. Arkansas officials asked for the signs to be removed.

With shelter space in the deep South filling up, the Federal Emergency Management Agency yesterday began to airlift storm survivors to states as far away as Michigan, Utah and California.

FEMA officials said they have secured as many as 50,000 shelter beds in often faraway states, but the flow of people to those states has sometimes been chaotic.

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Tesla

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Tue Sep-06-05 06:53 AM
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1. Don't you just love that Texas Govenor??

I mean he is working with NO HEART!!!

He is obviously a caring loving man.:sarcasm:

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Media_Lies_Daily

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:07 AM
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4. Arkansas is another "winner" by getting Texas to remove the signs....

...pointing to Arkansas.

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Delphinus

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Tue Sep-06-05 06:57 AM
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2. How many of those are now unemployed?

I've already read that it's not going to affect the economy or any of the government data.

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jus_the_facts

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Tue Sep-06-05 06:58 AM
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3. and the long term can't be sustained...we were already broke here in NE La

Edited on Tue Sep-06-05 06:59 AM by jus_the_facts

.....STATE FARM just abandoned their Corporate Operations here and moved to Oklahoma and Missouri and Alabama..they'd been here for 40 years and thousands unemployed as a result in my city...International Paper is closing down across the parish line about 20 miles north of here that'll destroy the community of Bastrop...and on and on...there's going to have to be a LOT of charity because the gov't's are BROKE from bottom to top.

It's the top 1% of the country that needs to be suffering instead of the destitude...wonder if they'll pony up and stop it with some TAX INCREASES...or has the slave class just been renewed in a New World Order...brought to you by PNAC and Homeland Security?!

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greekspeak

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:18 AM
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5. Texas can shut up; but Arkansas is not very well off

Texas can absorb a lot of people. It is a big state, with lots of money--maybe mostly in Oil's hands, but still a lot of resources for people. Arkansas is a smaller, pooerer state. I have heard Tennessee is behaving somewhat admirably in the circumstances. I am sure Arkansas is not nearly as well equipped. I want to know where Missouri and Oklahoma are in all this? Oklahoma is really REALLY close to Louisiana, though they do not border. Just a little distance. I have heard Tulsa is bitching cause they don't want the dark skinned people there. OKC...what is it doing? Springfield, Missouri...what are you doing? Branson, Missouri...full of hotels and large buildings. What are you doing, Branson? These two cities hype their Christian roots. Lets see some Christianity!

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ret5hd

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:45 AM
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6. The New Orleans Diaspora (nt)

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beetbox

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Tue Sep-06-05 07:50 AM
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7. Many will never return

for many it will be years as was/is the case with hurricane Ivan(?) in NC.

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blogslut

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Tue Sep-06-05 08:05 AM
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8. this is grave

This was my first thought. One million homeless people. Not just poor but those from the middle class as well.

You think the present Govt. has any "plan" in place for this? Think they'll even try to create a "plan"? Wanna bet whatever "plan" they dream up is going to smell just like pork?

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catmandu57

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Tue Sep-06-05 08:48 AM
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9. I wondered if there wasn't enough empty housing

in the Northern parts of these state for people to fill up. Then it hit me that there was, but it was probably already gone, taken by those who had the means to pack up and get the hell out before the storm.

Now, it's the poor and destitute who are being turned away, the poor who were poor already, those fighting the fight of the lowest rung, homelessness alway a very present possibility, addictions, incarceration.

Like someone on the newshour said last night the invisible had suddenly became visible, the problems we swept under the rug are still there, now, we have to deal with them. It's about time.

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LiberalFighter

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Tue Sep-06-05 10:42 AM
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10. Will they be able to vote in next year's elections if...

they are still in another state or other location?

Will they be able to vote in the state that they are temporarily housed?

How many of them will be registered to vote and able to vote?

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Igel

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Tue Sep-06-05 01:52 PM
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11. Texas has just shy of a quarter of the "displaced"

(to substantivize an adjective).

Meanwhile, there was the report that the "other" LA would send some money, and provide assistance, but couldn't actually accept any refugees: you see, they have homeless already.

Unlike Houston and Dallas, who apparently, Villagaigosa implied, do not have a native homeless population.

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