I just heard on NPR News that the governors of ....

[whistle]

...Louisiana (Gov. Blanco) and Texas (Gov. Rick Perry) agreed to move hurricane refugees from the New Orleans Superdome to Houston Astrodome.


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HOUSTON – At the urgent request of Louisiana Gov. Blanco, today Gov. Rick Perry agreed to receive 23,000 Hurricane victims currently taking shelter in the New Orleans Superdome at the Houston Astrodome, which Harris County officials agreed to turn into a long-term shelter. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will dispatch 500 buses to Louisiana and transport the 23,000 people currently taking shelter in the Superdome. The state has also worked with Jefferson County officials to convert the Ford Center in Jefferson County into a long term shelter to house victims of Hurricane Katrina.

<link> http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/press/pressreleases/PressRelease.2005-08-31.2748

They will use 445 buses that will move in a convoy. Problems are the city is flooded around the Superdome, plus a number of sections of the main road from New Orleans to Houston have been washed out according to NPR News. Is this a big publicity stunt that the republicans are trying to pull off?

[davidinalameda]

1. CNN is reporting the same thing

let's just get those people out of there

[Nikki Stone 1]

2. Saw this hours ago on WWLTV.COM

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

9:04 A.M. - (AP) Plans are being put into place to transport evacuees from the Superdome to the Houston Astrodome via a bus convoy.

11:49 A.M. - (AP) AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas is opening its doors to hurricane refugees from neighboring Louisiana.

Texas Governor Rick Perry says he expects evacuees to start arriving within the next 24 hours at the Houston Astrodome. He says Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco asked him this morning if the Astrodome could house the 23-thousand people currently being sheltered at the Superdome in Louisiana, and he quickly agreed. He says even before the request, Texas officials had been talking about using the Astrodome as a long-term shelter for people already stranded in Texas because of the storm.

Perry says the hurricane survivors are welcome in Texas for "as long as they want to stay." Children who are sheltered at the Astrodome will be able to attend public schools in Houston. Perry says the Astrodome schedule has been cleared through December.

[davidinalameda]

3. here's another article on the matter

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-083105katrina_lat,0,1174281.story?coll=la-home-headlines