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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Sep 2 2005, 08:09 PM
Now I'm certainly not one to mess with Texas, but 23 million people live there and they can't find room for 20 thousand "refugees" from their own country? I don't get it. I thought they were "good Christian people" down there but I don't see much good Christian behavior.
Maybe I'm missing it and maybe they just aren't reporting it, but you'd think there would be some sort of effort to bring of these stranded people into homes and churches instead of having thousands and thousands of people living like dogs in the old baseball stadium.
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There's a huge effort to bring the stranded people to shelters. It's almost logistically impossible to escort every single person at the exact same time to where they need to be. NOLA is flooded like crazy, people keep popping out of nowhere onto the streets and rooftops that need help, you've got idiots looting the streets and shooting at people for no reason. There's rapes and murders taking place in the middle of the street. You've got sick people who need medical attention and there's no power. Thousands of people need evacuating from the Superdome, and there's only a certain amount of buses that can come at a time with all the flooding, it's not like they can get buses in from all directions. This is just a nightmare beyong proportions, and it's easy to say from afar how Bush et al aren't doing a good enough job, which I agree with, but it's total chaos down there and alot more difficult when you don't have proper ways of communication with no power.
And about finding room for people in Texas, Florida, or wherever else. This isn't just a one or two day shelter. These cities that are recieving upwards of thousands of people need to know what to do with them. Most of these people are poor and live on weekly paychecks. Houston is taking on a huge risk with all these people coming. Not that they shouldn't be, they absolutely should. But as these people get more desperate, you know these problems are going to spread to Houston as well. I know for a fact that there aren't 20,000+ job openings there, and major problems will arise. You can't expect people to live in the Astrodome for 3+ months, maybe even a year.
I'm not ragging on your post, this is just general comments that I wanted to get off my chest.
I pray for everyone whose in the situation they are in down there, and hope everything can be restored back to normal as soon as possible. What that FEMA worker posted on another forum is just remarkable, and the people who are shooting, raping, murdering and taking advantage of the situation at a time like this are the scum of the earth, and should be taken out on the spot.