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Originally posted by blizzardND:
It would have been cheaper yet just to set up those big tents and a couple hundred cots. I'll bet within weeks they would have their homes fixed to the point they could live in them instead of waiting years for the house to be completely ruined and expect the country or Brad Pitt to come in and build a new one for them for free.
I'm sorry for the first year I felt sorry for those folks but I was in NOLA this spring, most of those homes should have been razed, and then the rebuilding could have began, now they all just wait, and wait, and wait. For what? City state and Feds are all broke. It will be along time before that parts of that city are back to the dump it was before the storm.
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I was actually there after Katrina (Ike in Galveston too). The TV can't even begin to show how devastated that place was. It was a mess. We had to setup camp in Mississippi. It was the closest place with electricity.
That being said, that was the most crooked place I have ever been. Not only the government, but the businesses were all trying to work a deal to get more than they deserved. Insurance companies, contractors, individuals, even some churches were all out for their piece of the action. It was depressing. It makes it hard to help people that are being so rotten.
There were seas of travel trailers on the side of the highway with no one in them, car dealers with every car broken into, and houses plundered. That trailer would have at least saved some money, but who knows if anyone would have stayed in them.
Just so you know, we WERE able to help people in Galveston.
Doc Weaver