You may find this interesting.
"It's starting to be that people ought to be getting on with their lives," Bemiss said. "If people make this last any longer, they don't want nothin' in life."
And he strategized from the beginning to keep his family of 20 together? Sounds like a potential Lubbock family-values, bootstraps Republican to me.....
"This is the kind of community we have here," said state Rep. Carl Isett, R-Lubbock. "This is the way it has always been here." It is the kind of community the evacuees have never seen: overwhelmingly white and proud of its ability to raise up its oil roughnecks and their families into the solid, taxpaying middle class.
Isett is right. It's just the way it is on the Llano Estacado. Let's offer to let Natalie Maines call herself a New Orleans native in exchange for Bemiss.
This just about made me cry. I hope this family finds their future to be happy and bright.
This is some article. Two dozen companies turned away from the job fair due to lack of space?!! What an outpouring of help. Folks are carping on the President's speech live thread about the government aid, but there is so much coming from the public sector, people just need to cool it for a bit and see how it all shakes out.
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.
Your heart goes out to these people who've lost everything, but I think many of them are having their eyes opened to the way it's possible to live in America.
To you Texans, everything I'm reading/hearing/seeing on TV makes me admire you guys more and more. What a state! What people!
My town, Sioux Falls, is a city of somewhere close to 200,000. We had places for up to 500 refugees, but none came. No one wanted to come here. I'm not sure if I'm elated or insulted.
I sure hope some can use this as a springboard for new opportunities. I have been wondering about the effect of divorced people with kids who used to live in the same area as the non custodial parent. I moved 2500 miles to be near my son. It was costly in more ways than just money. It had to be done but it meant starting all over with eight years of night shift. It has been 12 years now and my kid just bought a house a block away. Happy ending in my case. I hope for them too.
I wonder how many will never return to NO? My hubby used to live in Lubbock before coming to California about 17 years ago. He liked it there. Wish this family the best.
Wow this is amazing.
Have to ping you to this one.