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In Lubbock, evacuees find place to call home
Austin-American Statesman ^ | 11 September 2005 | Mark Lisheron

Posted on 09/15/2005 6:31:25 PM PDT by Army Air Corps

LUBBOCK — Desmond Bemiss stood at the open doors of the yellow school bus and watched three of his children get aboard for their first day of school.

Bemiss had been up since 5 a.m. His 5-year-old daughter, Dachannice, woke him as she often did in their home on Urseline Street in New Orleans. None of the Bemisses, 20 of them in all, had slept much the night before or the nights before that. Even when some of the lights were turned out, the conversations, televisions and boom boxes made the old Air Force hangar roar again into the early mornings.

This was no place for children, Bemiss knew, and it made him even more impatient to leave. Never had Bemiss and his family been so well cared for. No one was more genuinely appreciative than he. But how long, he wondered, could it or should it last?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: displacedfamily; hosptality; katrina; lubbock; relocation
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To: radiohead
"I heard a similar story last night on the BBC. A decent family getting a new start in San Antonio. They also plan to stay."

We just had a chap start with us today as well. Don't know yet whether he'll stay or not but we hope he does stay, he's a keeper.
21 posted on 09/15/2005 7:38:09 PM PDT by decal ("The Republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it")
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To: radiohead

I got along fine with most NOLA folks when I lived there thirty years ago.Even in the hardest core ghetto projects most of the people were law abiding,trying to make it the best they could.If you talked to the teenagers they would ALL tell you they wanted out of the welfare madness.At the time,it was $87 a month plus food stamps.Not much of an opportunity to live on the gravy train.
Things did change in the Eighties with crack and the whole gangsta glorification.I was glad to be gone from the scene by that time.


22 posted on 09/15/2005 7:50:45 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: radiohead

New Orleans has suffered from decades of rampant cronyism, corruption, and socialist idiocy. When city government operates on graft, greed, and blatant corruption, the citizens suffer.


23 posted on 09/15/2005 7:55:43 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Amen to that. All these calls for the fed money to go to locals is more of the same. If 80% of those in NO were born there I'll say it is time for some new blood.


24 posted on 09/15/2005 8:15:22 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: radiohead

No all parts of the South - trust me - but the lower areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, yeah - but you know that hatred exists everywhere - we saw more of it living in a nearly all white area in Pennsylvania than we ever did in integrated Texas.


25 posted on 09/15/2005 8:38:37 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: Army Air Corps; radiohead

AAC, you said that a lot better than I did - Tonight I saw the chief of Police on a news program with Ted Koppel I think - He was being asked why the police didn't enforce any laws inside the SuperDome and Convention Center - The Chief kept screaming at Ted that there were 30,000 people vs his 200 officers.......... I wanted Ted to say, "Are you claiming that all 30,000 people were criminals with guns and knives?"............ of course he didn't


26 posted on 09/15/2005 8:41:43 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: Army Air Corps

Wow this is amazing.


27 posted on 09/15/2005 8:43:31 PM PDT by cyborg (I finally got a job today. Thank you God. Thank you Our Lady of Lourdes' prayer petition.)
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To: radiohead

democrat socialist vote buying programs, that's what. La. democrat pols don't want blacks to work because then they don't have anything to offer them to vote for them.

Keeping them in poverty, they could always buy their vote by promising to "help" them.


28 posted on 09/15/2005 8:45:10 PM PDT by cajun-jack
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To: mhking

Have to ping you to this one.


29 posted on 09/15/2005 8:53:30 PM PDT by cyborg (I finally got a job today. Thank you God. Thank you Our Lady of Lourdes' prayer petition.)
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To: ClaireSolt

Well, many of my relatives live close to the LA border and have become familiar with the stories of NO city government's rapacious appetite for graft. The municipal government is infamous for kickbacks, skimming, and greed that would make the mafia blush.


30 posted on 09/15/2005 9:30:20 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: cyborg

Welcome back!


31 posted on 09/15/2005 9:31:25 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: SoDak
LOL!

My son lives near Sioux Falls. It is flat, dry, just beans and corn and it gets cold there. I live about 300 miles East, on the other side of the River, in the hills. I am used to winter and I would still not be thrilled about living in that part of SoDak!

Not to mention the huge cultural differences.

I would think of it as any of us up here having the choice to relocate to Siberia. Don't get me wrong: my Chicago SIL hates it out here. It is too dark at night and too quiet for her. Probably the same for the people from NOLA. Home is what you're used to.
32 posted on 09/16/2005 6:52:08 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Bless our troops and pray for our nation.)
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