How FEMA treats the poor -- San Leon, TX

[Th1onein]

I'm missing a couple of people who live (or lived) in a little town called San Leon, TX. It was hit very hard by Hurricane Ike and has suffered quite a few fatalities. In fact, it was one of the hardest hit areas. Yet FEMA is treating these people like they don't exist.

Here is a report from these residents:

Not only has FEMA not responded to San Leon, they have given out locations where supplies are available that are fictitious. Of four "POD" distribution locations FEMA gave out over KTRH radio (9-17), one of them does not exist. Two other locations had no FEMA supplies and had no clue that they had been designated. The 4th was there but had no supplies to give out. The FEMA "POD" in Seabrook refused to let people from San Leon in. Our residents are being turned away there.

It is tragic enough that our lives have been destroyed by a horrific storm. It further injures us that communities like Tomball are getting assistance and we are not. It is even worse when FEMA's publicity people give out phony information to inflate their numbers and waste what little fuel we have sending us to places that are not distributing assistance. I realize that to many government officials, this is a "political event". To us it is a matter of survival. If you don't help us, we will do it ourselves. But please don't lie to us, and don't make things worse..

http://www.sanleontexas.com/

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Katrina Redux.

[Th1onein]

2. Some lady whose house was demolished said developers want it.

But she said she'd bulldoze it, instead of rebuilding, and never sell it to them.

San Leon is prime beachfront property, although it is owned by some really poor people.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Another area the developers want to try to Disney-fy..

[LaPera]

4. The poor are no more than workers, numbers, peasants, like the vets who fought their wars......

for profit, now ignored....same old story....Life is Cheap!

Republican ideology.

Fuck the middle class, let's steal the suckers blind, they deserve it! (They believed us).
We'll get rich.....

Republican ideology.

We are all truing to fighting this republican fascist monster.......It's NOT easy!!