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Originally posted by exlurker
Now that the Houston Astrodome isn't accepting any more refugees, what's the plan? I've read that some are supposed to be taken to San Antonio -- is that right? And I'm concerned for the tens of thousands of people without safe water, food, or medical care, not just in New Orleans, but elsewhere in LA, MS, ALA, even parts of FL.
Am I right in assuming that lots more people will die before adequate basic help arrives?
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Yeppers. Many more are gonna die before this is all finsihed. I personally believe that part of it is a manifestation of the ingrained racism that exists in this country. I just believe in my soul that if it was 30,000 white people stuck at the NOLA convention center and superdome, they all wouldda been outta there by tuesday.
My personal beliefs aside...
San Antonio is supposed to accept up to 25,000, but I dont know how just yet. We only found out this afternoon that they were coming and at 5PM they were still grinding off the bolts that stuck out of the concrete (that held down equipment) in the warehouse where everyone is staying. I dont know how it coudl be ready already.
What would be real nice would be if the right religous brother Joel Osteen would shut his mouth for once and open his church. He just moved his congregation to the former Compaq Center. Bet that place could hold some refugees.
BTW, on CNN I just saw Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Katrina Task Force - some dude named General Honoree was all apologetic saying (and I am paraphrasing here) that "there was absolutely NO way anyone could have seen this coming." Really? Cause a few lowly New Orleans Times-Picayune reporters figured it out some three years ago. See their story (I cant find a dateline)
HERE. (Read 'Day Two' - its a play by play of whats happening now - and this was written (I believe) three years ago.
I just dont understand how it's 2005 and were gonna have THOUSANDS who have died in this. When 8,000 died in the Galveston storm in 1900, I can understand. They had no warning. But being the weathiest, most powerful country in the world, how did this happen here in 2005? How were we this vunerable? How did we not have a plan?