Florida probably has enough snowbird homes to house all of

[rzemanfl]

the refugees. There are two on my little street alone, fully furnished and ready to go. There are thousands of condos sitting vacant on the beaches. A leader would figure out a way to use them. Most of the owners have perfectly adequate year-round homes in the North, although some may be at lake cottages or trailers.

[AllieB]

1. My parents have offered their winter home in FL

if you look on hurricanehousing.com, there are a lot of Florida listings.

[rzemanfl]

3. Good for them! I bet Arizona has a lot of vacant housing too. n/t

[kdmorris]

2. With hurricane season not yet over

Can you imagine the trauma of moving those people into the condos on the beach just to have another hurricane come through?

Not saying it's a bad idea, I was just shuddering to think of how horrible it would be for them if it happened.

[rzemanfl]

4. Sort of like having the bus you were being evacuated in flip over

like happened the other day...

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. Yikes! I missed that!

Gotta link? Is everyone OK?

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[babylonsister]

9. No link, but I saw it on the news; tipped over in

Lafayette, LA, and I think one person died. :-(

[fudge stripe cookays]

13. Thanks babsis.

I just keep getting sadder.

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[rzemanfl]

10. One dead, several injured. Don't have a link. So much bad

stuff...

[fudge stripe cookays]

12. Oh God.

:cry: so much bad stuff indeed. Thanks.

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[kdmorris]

14. Yes, exactly like that :-( n/t

[babylonsister]

6. My first thought also, kdmorris; there are still

several storms out there. I'm in Houston and worry one could head this way; that would be a disaster considering how many evacuees are here, and the social services are already stretched to the breaking point.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. The logical place to house them are on the military bases.

[xultar]

7. Only Whites should go to FL. With that new Shoot First law blacks

shouldn't go.

STRAIGHT THE FUCK UP.

[QC]

11. They're doing that here in Panama City.

One of the condo groups contacted absentee owners to get their permission to use their units to house people--almost all of them agreed. A Christian retreat center out at the beach is letting people stay in all 250 of their rooms free of charge. My college has raised over $20,000 this week from faculty and staff. Red Cross here is having to ask people not to bring in clothing and food and such so that they won't be swamped. The response has been very generous all over the country.

[Misunderestimator]

15. That's excellent!