Miss. Motels Under Miserable Conditions

Looks like even thoughs who found motels are living in hell too without food or water This disaster is so far reaching. People are stuck so far from help, where is the red cross with all the money that was donated - sitting up the road somewhere assuming people have cars and the means to get to them

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050904/ap_on_re_us/katrina_motel_misery_hk2

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. - For thousands stranded along the Mississippi coast since Hurricane Katrina, the damaged hotels where they took refuge have become almost uninhabitable.

From one motel to the next, the conditions are the same — hot, smelly, soggy and dark. Toilets won't flush. Water won't run. Boredom won't end. Carpets are caked in mud and the concrete outside is often more inviting than the beds in the fetid rooms.

Just off Interstate 10 near Bay St. Louis, at what used to be a Waffles Plus restaurant and motel, Joanna Dubreuil and her two sons are luckier than most. Within the wreckage that surrounds them is an artesian well. The pump was carried away, so water now gurgles nonstop from a white plastic pipe jutting from the ground.

Dubreuil washes sheets in it but, fearing contamination, tries to keep a toddler from drinking it.
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