Katrina
- Thread starter Toxick
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get uncomfortable with the void.
kwillia
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Here is something to comfort you....
In this Feb. 24, 2006, file photo, some of more than 10,000 mobile homes are shown at the Hope, Ark., airport. Thousands of mobile homes collected to provide temporary homes for victims of Hurricane Katrina still sit unused at the airport in August 2006, a year after the storm ravaged the Gulf Coast, leaving thousands homeless.
In this Feb. 24, 2006, file photo, some of more than 10,000 mobile homes are shown at the Hope, Ark., airport. Thousands of mobile homes collected to provide temporary homes for victims of Hurricane Katrina still sit unused at the airport in August 2006, a year after the storm ravaged the Gulf Coast, leaving thousands homeless.
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kwillia
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Here's another pic even more impressive...elaine said:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has said that it was unable to put the trailers to use because federal regulations prohibit placing them in flood plains, and many of those needing shelter after the hurricanes are in areas classified as flood-prone.
<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060829/capt.8772b0f35f794ec78a13742c7046c61f.katrina_fema_trailers_ardj101.jpg?x=380&y=246&sig=T3RRIbZ2590BaL2xafB8GQ--">
As for your question... THIS WEBSITE sums it up quite well.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Hold up people...
...Katrina was an HUGE event; not something that happens very often.
Government is easy to criticize because all you have to do is point a finger at what is needed and is not being provided.
These trailers are not allowed in flood planes for safety reasons. Can you imagine the caterwauling if FEMA had ditched the rules, rolled these things into NO, set 'em up, put people in them temporarily and then had nothing but news report after news report about how the sewage from these things is creating yet another disaster? How about the danger of wiring them? Then say another storm comes along and wipes out 1/2 of them?
I'm not saying that having 10,000 of these things sitting around idle is a good idea. I am saying that dealing with something on the level of Katrina, the biggest storm to hit the area in what, 40 years or more, is going to be, by definition, a disaster. You can't plan for it. You can't prepare for it.
...Katrina was an HUGE event; not something that happens very often.
Government is easy to criticize because all you have to do is point a finger at what is needed and is not being provided.
These trailers are not allowed in flood planes for safety reasons. Can you imagine the caterwauling if FEMA had ditched the rules, rolled these things into NO, set 'em up, put people in them temporarily and then had nothing but news report after news report about how the sewage from these things is creating yet another disaster? How about the danger of wiring them? Then say another storm comes along and wipes out 1/2 of them?
I'm not saying that having 10,000 of these things sitting around idle is a good idea. I am saying that dealing with something on the level of Katrina, the biggest storm to hit the area in what, 40 years or more, is going to be, by definition, a disaster. You can't plan for it. You can't prepare for it.
kwillia
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That was the immediate drop off point for the trailers... they were supposed to be delivered to flood victims from there... but alas all the flood victims live in flood zones so there they sit....CandyRain said:How are the evacuees supposed to travel 500 miles to get to the trailers?
CandyRain said:
kwillia said:That was the immediate drop off point for the trailers... they were supposed to be delivered to flood victims from there... but alas all the flood victims live in flood zones so there they sit....
