Flood victims near here will get FEMA trailers from Hope, Ark.

[karlrschneider]

Just on local news, might be on the website http://www.kotv.com

Has everyone in New Orleans been accommodated? If you have Google Earth, look at the airport at Hope,
about 5 miles northwest of the city.
edit: link to story
http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=131341

[karlrschneider]

1. Sorry, dupe. Got error message but post did take after all.

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[madokie]

2. those trailers were denied to the people they were intended for

in the first place, good to see them maybe get used rather than lay in ruins.

[karlrschneider]

3. I guess, but there are THOUSANDS of them sitting there.

Hell, besides NOLA there are a lot of homeless people all over the damn country. I don't get it.
:grr:

By the way, I just happened to notice a couple thousand more parked at the Olive Branch, MS airport, just east of
town. I don't remember ever hearing those mentioned at all!
:eyes:

[madokie]

4. Oh I get it. The bush* misadministration wanted what happened to NO to happen

were glad it happened when it happened and did nothing to help the victims. they see it as a cleansing of a city, why I have no idea other than them working toward they're ulterior motive, the overthrow of the us government.

[nashville_brook]

5. at what point do we stop scratching our heads at * admin "incompetance" and call it

what it is?

[madokie]

6. we have, they won't ever

they being the enablers the 26%'ers, the flat earthers, the certifiable insane's

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Yes. Apparently after FEMA (under "Heckuva Job Brownie) bought

all of those thousands of trailers, it was discovered that FEMA regulations will not allow them to be placed in a flood plain or flood prone areas (I forget the exact wording) and that is why they are languishing in Hope.

....

FEMA and Congress are trying to figure out what to do with more than 10,000 mobile homes hastily stockpiled in Hope, Ark., after Hurricane Katrina. Federal regulations forbid them from being placed in a floodplain, so few were ever sent to the Gulf Coast. A move is on to change the law.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5313004

However, when there was tornado damage in parts of Arkansas, FEMA would not allow these trailers to be sent out to help storm victims.

....

Wednesday, both Ross and Pryor repeated their calls for FEMA to move government trailers parked at Hope to Desha County for displaced residents there. The trailer were originally intended for Hurricane Katrina survivors.

Pryor said that while Arkansans opened their homes, churches and shelters to help Katrina evacuees after FEMA failed to respond quickly to the 2005 disaster, the federal agency now won't move the trailers 100 miles from Hope to Dumas to help Arkansans.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/tornadoes/2007-03-08-fema-response_N.htm

Some of these trailers are now being made available for sale at greatly reduced prices.

....

The Federal Emergency Management Agency hurriedly bought 145,000 trailers and mobile homes just before and after Katrina hit, spending $2.7 billion largely through no-bid contracts. Now, it is selling off as many as 41,000 of the homes, netting, so far, about 40 cents on each dollar spent by taxpayers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030702628.html

This whole thing was a fiasco from the beginning.

[karlrschneider]

8. Fiasco? I was thinking of another word - it starts with 'cluster'

Strangely, though, they are sending a bunch to the flood-prone area here in NE Oklahoma. So what has changed?
:shrug:

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Good luck. They've been sitting there for years and half of Arkansas is flooded too.