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To: Road Walker who wrote (253203)	9/30/2005 10:32:44 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578243

How about a New Orleans theme amusement park in Bagdad? Rebuilding them both in one smack so to say :) Taro

To: Road Walker who wrote (253203)	9/30/2005 10:44:59 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578243

"Now we are going to rebuild Iraq... New Orleans be damned." Or anything else, for that matter. They are just starting to restore power to small parts of Beaumont, and there still isn't potable water. BEAUMONT - More than a week after being urged to flee Hurricane Rita, residents of Beaumont, Nederland, Port Neches and Groves can return home Friday from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. to assess damage and recover personal items. However, Port Arthur residents still must stay away until this weekend because the city is having problems keeping power to the water and sewer systems. Despite opening the cities, officials urged that people should leave during the dusk to dawn curfews and seek shelter elsewhere until basic services can be re-established. And Beaumont wasn't badly hit. southeasttexaslive.com In sharp contrast, the response to hurricane Charley was very different. Cargo planes were shuttling FEMA supplies from a Georgia Air Force base to a staging area in Lakeland, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had shipped 11 truckloads of water and 14 truckloads of ice. The first assistance checks to victims were to be shipped Monday night. sptimes.com Things have gotten to the point that the local officials are thinking of using police force to get supplies from FEMA. County Judge Carl Griffith said today he has become so frustrated with the federal relief effort that he has instructed all local officials to use police force if they have to to take supplies from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "If you have enough policemen to take it from them, take it," Griffith said. ................................................ "We are very short on food and water, and the FEMA trucks that were supposed to be here just aren't here," Griffith said. Commenting on the lack of help from FEMA, Griffith said, "We can't help it if politicans come here and just want to be seen by the media." Deb Schmidt, a U.S. Forest Service official, attended the meeting and tried to catalog all the needs around the county, but she mostly ended up observing anger from the local officials. "We hit the ground running with our own commodities and our own facilities, but we have no support," Griffith said. City officials cited a lack of water pumps, generators, food and water, and they complained about federal relief teams failing to show and fuel deliveries not happening as promised. Andre Wimer, city manager for Nederland, said he was tired of getting the runaround from federal officials. "We spend the day faxing and talking and we don't get any feedback. We need somebody helping us." chron.com I guess Beaumont won't be voting Republican next year. Assuming that they have rebuilt enough to have a vote, that is....