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To: Rande Is who wrote (1)	9/1/2005 11:52:20 AM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (2) of 1118

Refugees from Hurricane Katrina who sought safety in the New Orleans Superdome will be taken by bus to the Astrodome in Houston...at least until December, and longer, if necessary. Are you kidding me? This is like your neighbor's house burns down and you offer to put them up in your shed out back. But then the shed falls over, so you call up a relative to see if they have a shed where your neighbor could live. The entire concept is ridiculous. If these people must be shuttled hundreds of miles, then take offers from cities throughout the South, offering respectable shelter. . .and shuttle them accordingly. For goodness sake, it sounds like we have morons minding the store sometimes. I watched a TV news webcast from 500 miles away as my next door neighbor's house burned to the ground last month from a lightning strike. My son climbed the burning roof to hold the fire at bay with a fire extinguisher while my wife ran around the inside the burning house, gathering up family portraits and photos and directing the homeowner as to which papers were most critical to remove. And when the smoke began billowing into the main floor, my wife ran down the hall and grabbed her neighbor by the hand and led her out of the house as the fire department arrived. My son snuck back into the house through a window to save the family cat. They both then spent every day over the next 2 weeks in 100 degree heat with high humidity, helping box up wet burnt belongings and placed them in pods. The neighbor on the other side was equally helpful. And the neighbor down the street put them up in a beautiful apartment until their house can be rebuilt. All free of charge. This is what neighbors do! (I cannot express how proud I am of my family) The pentagon...planned to fly in Swift boat rescue teams from California. Once it was known that the levees were breached, why was there not an immediate plan to deploy 500 or 1000 boats? Or 2000 boats. . . certainly there were law enforcement officers from a dozen states ready to help at a moments notice if asked. T he boats could have been comandeered from the hundreds of boat dealers throughout the Gulf Coast. . . or simply put the word out that boats were needed at a particular safe staging area and just watch what shows up. Who wouldn't give up their boat to help rescue people from their attics? In fact law enforcement throughout the South own boats and would have happily delivered theirs to wherever they were needed. Now I fear it is all too little ... and way way too late. Rande Is First posted 8/31/2005 5:34:43 PM at: Message 21657652

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