Think about it...
Posted on 09/06/2005 9:20:50 AM PDT by Osage Orange
Northeast Oklahoma relief team is stung by rejection
By Sheila Stogsdill
State Correspondent
MIAMI, OK - A Hurricane Katrina relief team from northeast Oklahoma was stunned when its offer to bus 10 single mothers and their children staying at Houston's Astrodome was rejected.
"I am stunned, but I am not giving up," said Dee Dee Cox, Woman Crisis Center director for Craig, Ottawa and Delaware counties.
Cox had spearheaded a hurricane relief project over Labor Day weekend to bring single mothers and children to live in women's shelters in Grove and Miami.
Cox arrived in Houston around 4:30 p.m. Sunday in a 55-passenger air-conditioned motor coach, filled with water, food and children's toys. Hours earlier, a four-member volunteer team had left Miami to take care of any loose ends and secure any special needs the women might have.
The women and children were to stay in security staffed women's shelters in Grove and Miami. Clothing and meals were to be provided as well as transportation back to New Orleans.
But when the time came to leave, the women changed their minds.
They didn't give a reason for not wanting to leave Houston, Cox said.
"We didn't know what to do. We wanted to make life easier for these people and the community has come together, rising to the occasion," said Earl Shero, Community Crisis Center board director.
While in Houston, the volunteer team heard countless gut-wrenching stories of pain and heartache.
One woman, identified as 53-year-old Gwendolyn, told Cindy Shero of sleeping outside the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.
Shero said she comforted the crying woman and prayed with her as she told how thugs took over the dome, people were shot, children were raped and human waste was everywhere.
Gunfire was so constant that she and others would crawl on the ground to avoid being hit, Gwendolyn said.
When they learned no one was coming back to stay in the Grove or Miami shelters, Cox contacted the American Red Cross to offer room at the shelter for evacuees.
The communities already have collected many supplies for the evacuees.
Pick ten single mothers with kids and ORDER them to go.
Americans are offering their homes, and well-kept smaller shelters, and these folks want to stay in what will soon become a powder keg.
Maybe it's the ghetto mentality.
No, the homeless at Extended Stay are scum.
LOL!!
Obviously you've used an anology that is unfamiliar to you. As this is NOTHING like moving cattle.
Have you ever seen a cattle trailer? LOL!!
They aren't air conditioned...nor do they have bathrooms. LOL!!
I know...I've moved cattle. I've worked cattle. I've doctored cattle. I've loaded cattle.
"Who's paying for all these luxury places they will be living in again??As a Conservative I am getting a wee bit concerned.
Nothing wrong with placing them on closed military bases."
It would appear that this mission is paid from charitable
contribution. If you are a "concerned conservative", why would you want Fed tax dollars to be used to house these people?
Oh....;)
Agree!!
I suspect that either there was one who was a leader, and imposed her decision on the others in the group, or all of them were influenced by someone who wasn't scheduled to leave.
We have to remember that, in addition to having suffered a trauma and disruption that would probably leave most of us pretty fuddled, these are also people who haven't been accustomed to making good decisions and taking responsibility.
Then you should understand the analogy.
Why don't they use those cruise ships to house new workers re-building "New" New Orleans? This was suggested earlier by another freeper.
I DON"T!! That's my point, that's why I am concerned.
You've no idea.......
They might have to get jjjjj jobs !
Like I said....it's puzzling.
I can understand the good intentions but putting people on those cruise ships is a bad idea, IMO. Cabin fever is very real..and this would not be a luxury stay for very long. These people need longterm housing on DRY LAND. I don't even want to think about what could happen if cooped up people decided to mutiny.
It is puzzling, because it's not what we think of as rational behavior. My point, such as it is :-), is that given the combination of the situation and the people, we shouldn't be expecting much rationality!
They come from the projects...
Not exactly lifestyles of the rich and famous....
There arent a whole lot of places where they will find
life styles that are a good fit...
They will try to change wherever they land to be like home..
Drugs, Sex, Violence...will go wherever they land...
To try to filter the good the bad and the ugly out.. will naturally bring charges of racism by the MSM, the Marxist minority lobby, and other troubled liberals..
There are the deserving poor and the undeserving..good luck
sorting through the pile..
It's like a box a chocolates...you never know what you are going to get...or if someone pooped in yours.. until you take a bite.. -Forest Gump sorta
imo
"They might have to get jjjjj jobs !"
Oh gad no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wouldn't your suggestion of housing people on military bases involve tax dollars? How would that work?
Think about it...
I was half-serious. With more countrywide relocation choices, the pickiness will increase...
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