Texas tent living still common two months after Ike

[KamaAina]

Heckuvajob, uh, whoever took Brownie's place! :sarcasm: There must be a shortage of toxic trailers or something...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_re_us/ike_housing_shortage

OAK ISLAND, Texas – Truong Van Cao and two other fishermen share a cramped, muddy tent amid the wreckage of homes, including his own, destroyed when Hurricane Ike stormed across this tiny Southeast Texas town.

Seventy miles to the northeast, Bridge City retirees Ferrel and Jerry Ashby waited a month to get a mobile home from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the storm flooded their house.

On Galveston Island, the bullseye for Ike's arrival, Roshonda Domingeaux and her family have bounced around from shelter to shelter since Ike's 12-foot storm surge destroyed her house....

And to no one's surprise, local officials and residents say FEMA has been slow to respond with the mobile homes it promised to provide. The federal agency promised officials last week that it has worked hard to cut the red tape and that housing remains its No. 1 priority.

Hopefully we won't have any disasters until after Jan. 20, when there'll be people in Washington who actually give a fig. :eyes:

edit: emphasis

[Dogmudgeon]

1. And it's about to become a LOT more common.

:scared:

--p!