WP: 2 Million Displaced By Storms

[DeepModem Mom]

2 Million Displaced By Storms
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 13, 2006; Page A03


The Federal Emergency Management Agency yesterday increased its count of people displaced from the Gulf Coast by hurricanes Katrina and Rita by nearly a third, to about 2 million people. A FEMA spokeswoman attributed the sharp rise to a reporting error.

According to a news release, FEMA is paying rental assistance to 685,635 families whose homes were damaged or destroyed by the Aug. 29 and Sept. 24 storms, an increase of 167,000, or 32 percent, over a month ago. FEMA officials generally estimate three people per household as a rule of thumb.

In December, the agency counted only recipients of a transitional housing assistance program created Sept. 23, FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews said. Shortly before Christmas, FEMA discovered that it had not counted families receiving rental assistance under a traditional disaster aid program, she said.

"We've never had a situation where an entire American city was evacuated, and they weren't able to go home," she said. "These numbers represent that phenomenon."

The figure exceeds initial post-hurricane estimate of 300,000 displaced families and an October estimate by FEMA to Congress of 450,000 to 600,000 households....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/12/AR2006011201912.html?sub=AR

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. but bush said they installed 61,000 trailers.

That means each two man trailer will serve as home for approximately 33 adults and children.
Welcome to the third world.

[PassingFair]

2. Have you seen the CAMPS?

Looking for links....

Welcome to the third world:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/nation/epaper/2005/12/17/m1a_NOLA_TENTCITY_1217.html

And if you have an extra 12 hours.....
Check this one out:

http://journals.aol.com/foxxgiavani/KATRINAANDRITANEWS/entries/776

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. No. I don't like crying that much.

Not from some testosterone macho viewpoint, but I just don't like feeling so sad.

Seeing the concentration camps like that would be very sad indeed.

[PassingFair]

5. It won't make you cry, it'll make you sick to your stomach.

This administration may be the one way to make me quit my coffee addiction.

I swear, my stomach churns so much, I'm think of giving it up.

Already gave up smoking.
Already gave up drinking.
On a DIET now.
After I give up coffee, the only things
left to quit are promiscuous sex and breathing!

[rodeodance]

8. President Lauds Progress in Storm-Battered Region --another WP Headline

Bush Visits Gulf Coast: President Lauds Progress in Storm-Battered Region (By Michael A. Fletcher)

[AnneD]

11. You won't be able to breathe...

because they are gutting the clean air act as we speak, so give that up. Now about the promiscuous sex. They are trying to do away with birth control pills and I figure condoms will not be too far behind. I'd say the future doesn't look so good for you....But you will die a beautiful corpse;)

[Boomer]

3. Better start getting used to it

>> "We've never had a situation where an entire American city was evacuated, and they weren't able to go home," she said. "These numbers represent that phenomenon." <<

Add a few small Southern towns to that list, towns that were simply swept away, and then keep the list open for next year's casualties.

Given the increasing intensity of storms and the build up of real estate along the southern coastlines, we're in for many years of devastation and many more millions of people permanently displaced.

[rodeodance]

6. yeah, I head Jr and his laudry list of 'good' things Fed. gov. is doing.

[rodeodance]

7. it was photo-op time before he went to his fundraiser in FL.

[PassingFair]

9. K & R

Because we need to stay current with this news.
Because we need to stay current.
Because we need to stay.
Because we need to.
Because we need.
Because.

[RazzleDazzle]

10. What they've now told the 9th Ward is that IF they are allowed to

rebuild, what they have to do is get a significant commitment by former residents to go back and rebuild, and they've got 4 months to do that. Otherwise, the Feds will buy them out.

Which means the 9th Ward is toast, completely. Its residents are scattered to the winds -- how on earth, and WHO would do it, could all the residents be found, polled, persuaded to come back, so that enough numbers agree and they get to go back and rebuild? Nothing I heard, btw, mentioned any rebuilding money for those who agreed.

It's a cynical and sick ploy to put an impossible burden on their shoulders and then fault and blame and punish them when they can't accomplish the requirement.

Very ugly.

[uppityperson]

12. K&R nt

[lastliberalintexas]

13. It's actually many more than that

FEMA"s numbers don't take into account the many people (like myself) who are receiving no assistance from the government even though we are out of our homes. There are plenty of people who are living with friends or relatives and who have no idea when or even if they will be able to return to their homes. And there are plenty of people who are receiving no help from FEMA even though their homes were completely destroyed.

More smoke and mirrors from this administration.