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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-19-08 05:00 PMOriginal message My relatives in La Porte are confused about why they are blacked out. Members of my partner's family--former soft-right-leaning white gun-toting Texan apoliticals with a son who graduated from Annapolis who are now Obama supporters--called her today very confused. They are desperately trying to get food for people standing in foodlines in the towns along the bay. People are hungry and those whose houses are less damaged are caring for the sick and the hungry. Where's the press? Why isn't anyone helping? She's confused.I'm not. I'm not confused at all. I am sad though.
HillbillyBob (69 posts) Fri Sep-19-08 05:04 PMResponse to Original message 1. Short answer (not to be snarky) REPUBLICAN RULE. Remember all those folks left out in the weather after Katrina?That was not a fluke. I have even heard that FEMA will not even sendice to the survivors.
readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-19-08 05:08 PMResponse to Reply #1 2. No, they're not responsible for that anymore. According to the forums at KHOU, they're commandeering private property left in areas of Bolivar Island and using it for their own purposes because they can just claim it was destroyed by the storm and they are looting as well. (By they and their I mean FEMA) Of course there are some fantastic people there, I'm sure, lovely individuals. But as a whole, as a force under executive control it's a different story. A man in Chambers county reported that rescuers are coming into town immediately asking 'where the restaurant with the free food is' to people surviving off MREs. Madness.
elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-19-08 05:36 PMResponse to Original message 3. No sign of FEMA or the Red Cross, either, although the RC IS running ads asking for disaster relief donations. Salvation Army's delivering hot meals, though.
chill_wind (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-19-08 05:49 PMResponse to Original message 4. I just a read a more detailed account of the man who was a survivor (but his female friend was swept away (TV interview). He said the search teams were ransacking all the surviving structures (storage sheds etc) for any equipment at all that they could seize and use. He was trying to repair a truck in the aftermath to get it running and they said they could also seize that for their use under their understanding of Bush's orders. He convinced them it couldn't be repaired (he eventually did get it running.)
