Some Texans still living in Tents after Ike

Source: MSNBC, AP

Some Texans still living in tents after Ike
Two months after hurricane, finding housing remains agonizingly slow



Coming home
Thousands of residents returned to Galveston on Sept. 24 for the first time since Hurricane Ike hit 11 days before.

updated 2 hours, 43 minutes ago

OAK ISLAND, Texas - Truong Van Cao and two other fishermen share a cramped, muddy tent amid the wreckage of homes, including his own, destroyed when Hurricane Ike stormed across this tiny Southeast Texas town.

Seventy miles to the northeast, Bridge City retirees Ferrel and Jerry Ashby waited a month to get a mobile home from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the storm flooded their house.

On Galveston Island, the bullseye for Ike's arrival, Roshonda Domingeaux and her family have bounced around from shelter to shelter since Ike's 12-foot storm surge destroyed her house.

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I wonder how long it will be that people there are in tents?(and trailers too)..Any bets it will be less than in New Orleans?

makers, Fannie, and Freddie, and banks?

McCain got a majority of the votes in Texas... There are Dem voters in every state, in every county, in every city in this country, not to mention helping out fellow human beings in need should have nothing to do with politics. These are families, old people, and children that are living in tents!

Stupid is as stupid does...........

...we took in many who were fleeing from the storm. Some Democrats, some Republicans, some Libertarians, some NOTHING!

Everyone deserves human rights and dignity, especially in the US where we espouse democracy.

You are sick, and no true Democrat, if you would deny these people some kind of safe shelter.

Obama will change things in these people's lives, I believe, and if you don't care either way than so be it...

Shameful..

How can you call yourself a Democrat and not care about people in need... It's going to be 38-39 degrees in Bridge City tomorrow night, and there are elderly people and children sleeping in tents.

As if it mattered to this, the Obama campaign won every major metro area in central, southern, and eastern Texas -- including Houston, which was the area raped most by the hurricane. But that's beside the point.. let me know how the strategy of "you don't support my sockpuppet so fuck you!" works out.

Signed, a Texas Democrat.

P.S. Galveston is blue, dickweed.

you are a dick Cheney

till then, my heart goes out to you; especially my kinfolk.

The forgotten Hurricane.

Just because the majority of these people voted for McCain does not mean they should be forgotten. They are still American citizens.

Under the new presidency, Pres Obama must react swiftly and clearly after disasters like these and help all Americans whether they be in a democratic stronghold like NYC or a backwater that supports Republicans. Dems are supposed to be better, and will be better than the bickering of the past.
We help all people because we ARE the better people. Forgive them (Galveston's)for they know not what they do (vote republican). In time, however, they we will see who were the ones that actually helped them in their hour of need, the "bleeding heart" liberals who gave them medical care, federal aid and money, food and shelter or good god fearing "christian" repubs who gave them the middle finger.

Parts of the state will be freezing at night over the next few days. I hope these people can find shelter.

is laying off 3800 people. Notices will probably go out this coming week.

Lost your home? Lost all your possessions? Insurance won't pay? FEMA rejected you? Here's a pink slip for you.

:mad:

social services in this country have gone straight to hell under bush. needs go unmet and they do not care. they simply do not give a shit. my bet would be that perhaps with the exception of oil workers the people in texas who lost everything will be just as royally screwed as the people of louisiana and mississippi were following katrina. i have a friend who lost everything in Jeanne in FL in 2004 and i just put her in a motel for a week following a week at my house and a week at another friend's house after she was evicted from her apartment in NC after her destroyed home in FL was foreclosed on...she's looking straight at life on the street or in a shelter four years after disaster struck. some of this is because she suffered some kind of mental breakdown that has gone untreated and for whatever reason she has been slow to reach out so that the situation was absolutely dire before anyone acknowledged it and that's on her - but i think i heard or read somewhere about FL in 2004, if you lived in the wrong part of the state you were just fucked. and so she was and so she and her family continue to suffer four years after the fact.

Remnants of Hurricane Ike, which battered Houston and other areas of the South in September, were seen in Illinois at one point during this string of storms as rainwater poured over large parts of the state and the Midwest.

Nine northeastern Illinois counties including Cook, DuPage, Kane and Will counties were declared federal disaster areas after those heavy rains pounded the state.

More than 45 million dollars is going out to help those impacted by the floods and most of that figure will be used for temporary housing and home repairs according to representatives from FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency). Other funds have been approved for medical expenses, transportation or replacing lost property.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/FEMA-Sending-45-Million-to-Illinois-for-Flood-Damage.html

About 30 counties in Indiana were declared disasters. In fact a whole town, Munster, had to be evacuated where most the homes were totally under water and have to be bulldozed. Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee also had massive hurricane/flooded areas declared disaster zones.

Without the intertubes, no one would even know anything happened.

How many of those living in tents were most likely evicted from NOLA after Katrina ?

Then they got poisonous FEMA trailers. :cry:

My heart goes out to the Gulf Coast hurricane survivors of all the hurricanes. You are always in my thoughts. :hug: