Katrina people living in barns, tents in broken houses, etc.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/13/katrina.trailers/


Katrina victims: 'Living in barns'
Parish president blasts FEMA over temporary homes

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"We got a serious situation in St. Bernard Parish," its president, Henry "Junior" Rodriguez, told CNN on Tuesday.

"We got people living in tents and automobiles. We got people living in barns. We got people living in their houses -- in tents," he said on "American Morning."

"This is the beginning of winter. This is unacceptable."

Tuesday morning, it was 41 degrees in New Orleans.

A site with 50 to 55 trailers is operational, Rodriguez said, and another may be able to handle 45 trailers within a couple days. But the 100 or so trailers fall far short of the 12,000 trailers needed for the number of people estimated to return home, he added.
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america, the greatest country in the world?

didn't a poster recently tell us of a huge storage yard of trailers not being used?

(an aside: part of my hurricane supplies has always been a tent to live in, in case the roof goes.)

The money is going down the same BFEE rat hole that the Iraq money is disappearing into.

Really. BTW did you read the article.

I just wish it were a funny one.

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I also thought of Christmas as I read the article.

Elsewhere on DU someone has a rant on about how their was some nonsense on the floor today about the holiday war, and yet so much on the Gulf Coast is in ruins. Members in the house also pointed that out.

Negligence and incompetence STILL from repubs and some molasses-assed Dem's.

You're right. this Christmas should indeed be about a push for Katrina relief.

Christ would have expected no less.

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These are my fellow Americans, forced to live in great misery, while the man who claims to be President spends tax-payer's money on killing people overseas, and giving tax cuts to his rich buddies. How does the man dare face the rest of the world, while he lets his own people go homeless, and starve? Why don't people wake up, and see him for what he is...a sociopath, a sniveling coward who surrounds himself with people who agree with him, and lets Americans die?

He has said so many times..."Saddam killed his own people"..."Saddam gassed his own people"...well, Chimpy, as the rest of the world can now say "Bush abandoned his own people." When people die this winter from lack of heat, and when they die because they have no health care, tell the world how you differ from Saddam.

And we can't lecture other countries about human rights anymore, either. Bush has completely destroyed the "moral" side of America. It's not those "darned liberals" who have done it--it's Bush. We abandon our own people here & torture others overseas. We're not the "Good Guys" anymore.:(

Tammy

new FEMA trailers scattered about near the gulf coast but not inhabited for whatever reason.

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We feel pretty abandoned and scared. The fear and frustration I see on the faces of fellow survivors here breaks my heart.

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for our bros and sistahs on the GC. We're a little clumsy and maybe slower than we should be. But, get ready, lol, because we're coming. In any way we can.

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I've been a little discouraged lately.

Ups and downs, ya know.

I know there are people out there that care, like y'all. I really appreciate it.

Hang in with us. We need YOUR help figuring out how to do this.

Let's get it done.

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We have people with no permanent place to live, & these fundie morons are yelling about how Christmas is being destroyed? Well, how about the fact that Christmas is being destroyed for people in the Gulf Coast because so many of you fundie morons could care less about their plight? But I guess you are so selfish that you don't even think about them. Better to tell someone off for not saying the right "Religiously Correct" Christmas greeting.

Tammy

WHERE THE FUCK all of the money donated to the Red Cross by American citizens went?

Although I am not much of a tv watcher, anytime I turned it on during the month or two following the disaster, there was the Red Cross begging for money.

Where is it??? Where did it go???

Since 1989, I stopped giving to the Red Cross, after watching, w/my own eyes, what they did NOT do to help my neighborhood after a 7.1 earthquake.

Now I send my monthly donations for Katrina relief to www.mercycorps.org. At least w/them, I get a monthly accounting as to how the money is spent.

To all of the people that were affected by Katrina, my heart rarely strays from thinking of you and I will not give up my daily emails demanding accountability.

My warmest wishes for those scattered far and wide this holiday season.

They are forced to live in barns, sheds and destroyed houses with winter coming on. They will out of necessity build fires to stay warm. In some cases the fires will get out of control and the results will be tragic. And if the flames don't cause death it may come as a result of carbon monoxide asphyxiation.

The way FEMA and the Bushco administration is handling this Katrina fiasco is criminal and they need to answer for their crimes against humanity.

Sounds familiar.

There was no room for them at the FEMA trailer park.

nt

until Americans come out of their "comfort zones," eschew "bidness as usual" and take to the streets to DEMAND IT. At this late date I have -0- confidence in that happening...