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To: BWAC who wrote (3137)	9/2/2005 11:59:58 AM
From: GuinnessGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26016

BWAC, Not a bad suggestion all in all, but I imagine the tents are brought in by the campers and the food brought in by entrepreneurs. Why not, at least in the affected states, tell the incoming on campus dorm room students, that they have to find an off campus place to live or wait a semester before resuming their education. After all, the vast majority have their parents to go back to whereas these refugees obviously have nowhere to go. For the most part, school begins the day after labor day so these dorms are already expecting a huge influx of people. And they have in house cafeterias and the like. Of course the feds would have to pony up to the universities for lost income but I still think it would be far cheaper in both dollars and human suffering to house these people in the university dormitories. Of course, everyone would have to move extraordinarily fast to pull this off. And I doubt seriously if the affected states would have enough room, but if you throw in Texas and some others, they might just be able to avoid a real disaster in the making. Craig