Did your city take in Katrina survivors?

[enree erzweglle]

I read that my town prepared 300-400 beds for survivors but no one other than a family of 6 took us up on our offer. (!) :D

That family of 6 arrived at the county airport over the weekend. Local news reporters were there when they arrived and they stuck microphones in their faces and asked them if they were "overjoyed" to be here. The two boys (they looked like they were maybe 15 or 16) looked like they were having a hard time stifling abject laughter, maybe at the prospects of winding up where they wound up or maybe they were just giddy. I don't know, but it was kind of funny.

[ms.peachy]

"overjoyed"

I mean, what on earth is the appropriate response to such inanity? "Why yes! I wish my home had been rendered uninhabitable sooner! This is great!"

[ScarySquirrel]

I think I read somewhere that my school is taking in a couple kids or something, but I don't know why in the world they would want to come this far away to finish the academic year. Whatever though. Maybe I just dreamed that.

[enree erzweglle]

"overjoyed"

I mean, what on earth is the appropriate response to such inanity? "Why yes! I wish my home had been rendered uninhabitable sooner! This is great!"
I thought the same thing. I also thought it was really tacky to have cameras trailing them. One camera was filming them leaving the plane and I could see two additional cameras in front of them. How awfully insensitive, I thought, for the media here to have done that. (But I expect that from the media, particularly our local media.)

The university where I work is taking in Tulane students and letting them finish out the year (or maybe just the term, I don't know) here and they're giving them food and housing. (The housing is hard to come by--I'd be curious to see where these poor kids wind up.)

[Mustangjen808]

so far Denver has brought in about 300 people. I guess we are suppose to house almost 600. But that is ok becuase we had this army base that they were getting ready to shut down,so it worked out that they had not torn it down yet. The building still had beds and stuff in it,so if it can help,might as well

[kll]

Our local news said 300 are supposed to arrive today.

[wanton wench]

we were suppose to get a bunch of people form ft. chaffee(i think thats how you spell it) but we didnt for some reason! we only have about 75!

[Documad]

Our best colleges are taking in a lot of students and some have offered housing to students' families too. (Two private religious colleges said that they much preferred students originally from the midwest who were merely going to school in New Orleans :p --but the other colleges made the offer to true southerners too. )

Minnesota was ready to take 5,000 people, but the local news said that FEMA scrapped their flights out. I doubt that many wanted to come here because they were going to be housed at a military base in outstate Minnesota (not the best place to be this winter).


My friend's son had just moved into Tulane when he evacuated so now he's going to college in NY.

[jdawg77]

So far Lansing, MI has taken 80 or so, I think more are on the way...

[enree erzweglle]

I heard a survivor from New Orleans giving an interview. He said that they were taken by bus from NO to an airport, put on a plane, and as the plane was leaving the runway, the pilot announced the destination (Utah). Imaging turning your life turning over like that and not even knowing where you were heading until it was too late.

[Loppfessor]

I heard a survivor from New Orleans giving an interview. He said that they were taken by bus from NO to an airport, put on a plane, and as the plane was leaving the runway, the pilot announced the destination (Utah). Imaging turning your life turning over like that and not even knowing where you were heading until it was too late.


Hey! Utah is a pretty cool place...