FEMA Chief: 100s of Trailer Parks to Be Built for Hurricane Katrina Victims

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBDYMNGKEE.html

BAKER, La. (AP) - The government's head of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts made a surprise visit to a newly built trailer park Saturday and said hundreds of similar makeshift towns are planned to house residents displaced by the storm.

U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen called the construction of the park that holds more than 570 trailers about 91 miles northwest of New Orleans "pretty remarkable."

"This went from nothing to something in about five weeks," said Allen, who chatted with residents of the small trailers equipped with air conditioning, plumbing and TV antennas.

The park is laid out like a small town, with gravel roads, street lights and power lines.

[KamaAina]

1. Welcome to Bush**ville

now go home! These places (I heard about one near Franklin, La.) have no amenities and no transportation to get to any amenities (if, that is, Wal-Mart can even be considered an amenity). They're doing exactly what they said they wouldn't do: recreating the same situation as before, just away from greater N.O.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. There was a long article about this

in the Washington Post a few weeks ago.

What they're doing, of course, is building places that will be nothing but a snack for future hurricanes.

Can they get any goddamn dumber?

[Cha]

3. What the previous

two DUers :hi: said were my first thoughts about "trailer parks" in the path of hurricanes..are they insane..on crack?

I called them "bushvilles" to myself, too.

Why arem't they building re-enforced houses ala habitat for Humanity with hurricane clips for these displaced people?


Major typo~edit

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. Alot of those folks they want to leave.

Why make it tolerable for them if you want to steal their land.

[xray s]

5. and just where are the residents supposed to work?

90 miles is a pretty long commute to NOLA

[markus]

6. Bricks in the sticks

Why are we recreating the problems of New Orleans housing projects out in Baker, La?

These people need to be moved to NOLA. There are vast open areas: City Park, the neutral ground (median) of Pontchartrain Boulevard. Hell, put 'em in the parkways of Lake Vista (yeah, right).

Seriously, city park is quite large, and could host tens of thousands of people.

But they don't want them back.

These are concentration camps.

They are intended to make these people as miserable as possible so they will leave.

http://wetbankguide.blogspot.com/2005/09/bricks-in-sticks.html">Bricks in the Sticks

[lpbk2713]

7. Sounds like something out of Grapes of Wrath

..... Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be there in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be there in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they built - I'll be there, too.

[OneBlueSky]

8. I read somewhere that there are thousands of unoccupied . . .

homes and apartments in areas of New Orleans that were minimally affected by the hurricane . . . for what they're spending on these camper cities, they could pay a couple of years rent for thousands of families to return to NO and restart their lives . . .

but that would make too much sense . . . and the money wouldn't go to BushCo corporate contributors . . .

[lpbk2713]

9. Another example of rampant FEMA mismanagement.

This compares to the money paid to the cruise lines for lodging. Twice what the occupants would have paid for a cruise.


"..... and FEMA, you're doin' a heck of a job."

[Toots]

10. Concentration Camps without the barbed wire...

using free rent and TV as the lure but make no mistake they are Concentration Camps....

[formercia]

11. In 18 Months they have to leave

Hey maw, grab the tent and let's see if we can shoot a coon for dinner.

[drthais]

12. I live within ten miles of Baker, La

and I read yesterday in the Baton Rouge paper
that, (a) so few people were willing to leave shelters around here to go to that nasty-ass park, that buses waited all day to load two or three people to haul over there. 'Volunteers' were waiting at the trailer park for scores of people that never showed up. that was yesterday. and (b) this place will be 'guarded' by security AND people living there will have to tell the guards whenever they plan to have 'visitors' and who the 'visitors' will be

how do you like THAT?