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This morning we awake to a rare sight in the Katrina zone, grey skies. Most places haven't seen rain since Hurricane Rita. Each day has been wall-to-wall blue skies.
Firefighters welcome the rain. Things are too dry and with the piles of debris growing larger the fire hazard is huge.
But the rain is no fun for the thousands of families still sleeping in tents. And it does no good for the clothes. In town after town in this region clothing gathered by Americans all across the country for storm victims was just dumped on the ground in parking lots for folks to go through. Those clothes have now been out in the open for more than two months. Yet, people search them daily looking for their size or their children's sizes. The biggest frustration is looking for shoes. There are plenty of all different sizes but only one shoe. In the jumble they have become separated. Most people these days are looking for coats or sweaters to warm them from the cold and now also the rain.
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Luxury amid the destruction
Clothes in piles in parking lots, a woman with an older brother who has Alzheimers living in a pup tent, streams of people every day inquiring about the status of their travel trailer with no answers available, applicants with $2,358 in FEMA housing assistance with no place to spend it because there is no place to rent. These are just a few of the images that I live with everyday since returning from aiding the Hurricane Katrina relief effort in Ocean Springs. There is so much wrong, on so many levels with how this disaster has been handled that it defies explanation of how, what, why? But more importantly, where do we go from here? I don't see any answers coming from the federal government or the Congress. They've moved on to the Bird Flu and the next Supreme Court Justice. Not that those issues aren't important, but when it comes to one of the most basic needs -- shelter -- being denied these victims, everything seems to pale in comparison. The last news item I saw on this, having done the math of how many travel trailers were being delivered per day and how many families still needed them, it will be after Christmas before everyone has a place to live. And this in the greatest country in the world? We have failed miserably.
Ashamed American, Arlington, VA (Sent Nov 2, 2005 8:37:55 AM)
I spent my childhood in Pascagoula MS and am heartsick to see hometown lady digging through clothes strewn on parking lot. After Camille, help came almost the next day and primarily through churches and individuals who drove down with donated things. Now we are expected to donate to huge bureacratic organizations that never seem to do the job as well as smaller groups of caring citizens. The roads after Katrina were road-blocked for days (I presume in fear of looting that may have never happened.)
alyce craddock (Sent Nov 1, 2005 7:43:55 PM)
Shoot. I'm going to find out if there's a drive around here, for coats, shoes, and sweaters. And to use plastic thingies (for electrical cords or stuff, they secure tightly and u have to cut them off) to keep shoes "mated" together. I know I have some little girl coats and shoes I could send, if I could figure out how. I'm going to see what I can find out. Thanks for reporting this sort of thing, with these details. It made me feel like there IS something I can do, even if it is only a little, I can do SOMETHING.
Sarebear, Centerville, Utah (Sent Nov 1, 2005 5:59:36 PM)
How could this happen? Where is the Red Cross? We did not just send our donated items to 'parking lots.' And the folks in the storm area certainly dont need to be treated like this - like we don't care.
Linda Amspaugh, Pine Bluff, Ark. (Sent Nov 1, 2005 2:37:57 PM)
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