Hurricane victims arrive at Otis

Cape Cod Times ^ | September 9, 2005 | By SEAN GONSALVES and AMANDA LEHMERT

[chapin2500]

CAMP EDWARDS - After 10 days amid a swamp of human waste and floating debris that was once the grand city of New Orleans, 107 Hurricane Katrina survivors and six pets landed at Otis Air National Guard Base yesterday afternoon.

[chapin2500]

They [survivors] didn't know what to expect. Some had never been outside of New Orleans or had ever flown on a plane.

...or have seen 110 inches of snow in one season. Welcome to Cape Cod, we are more than happy to have you!

[Brainhose]

That Otis. You always knew he had a big heart.
Who knew he had his own Airforce base?
Between that and inventing the elevator, he was one busy man.

[theDentist]

Hey, someone ought to bus them all to Hyannis. Lovely streets and beaches. All sorts of local celebrities to meet (and dodge, if he's driving).

[chapin2500]

LOL! no, not that otis, this Otis

Otis Air National Guard Base is named for pilot, flight surgeon, and eminent Boston City Hospital surgeon, Lt. Frank "Jesse" Otis, a member of the 101st Observation Squadron who was killed on Jan. 11, 1937 when his Douglas O-46A crashed while on a cross-country training mission.

[chapin2500]

You talking about this gut with a map of Hyannis on his nose

[TNCMAXQ]

Oh no, I clicked on that fatboy link and now I feel nauseous! ;-)

[Gay State Conservative]

Not only Hyannis....in case you're not aware,our esteemed junior Senator,John Friggin' Kerry ("I made my money the old fashioned way;I married it") owns at least one one island off of Cape Cod.Granted that,given the overheated local real estate market,this island is surely worth many millions of dollars...but I think that he could put up at least 500 people there.

But that's not to say he will,however.

[theDentist]

Well, there's hundreds of thousands displaced, so we can send some to the island, some to Hyannis, and some on up to Truro and PTown. The season's pretty much over, and there's all those hotels that will be sitting empty for the next 6 months.

[Gay State Conservative]

With all the breathtakingly wealthy progressives in Maoist bastions like Brookline,Newton,Lexington,Concord, Weston,etc,etc...I think that these Mass progressive households could each take in three or four displaced people.

If they all put their "money" where their mouths are,problem solved........all 1,000,000 homeless could come right here to the People's Republic.

[theDentist]

OK, there too!