Posted on 01/01/2006 12:59:38 PM PST by Pikamax
Okay. What does that have to do with anything I said? Are you addressing the right FReeper? I was talking about welfare cases.
Your quote.
If you read all my posts, I am talking to another FReeper about the do nothings who refuse to take care of themselves after months of government hand outs. I don't give a crap about the trailers, when they are coming, or who is or isn't giving them.
Let me be more clear:
I am talking about the people who are waiting around for the government to supply them with trailers everything they refuse to pay for themselves."
I did read all of your posts. And I do believe that this issue is much larger than NIMBY or a trailer. The size of the destruction is almost too hard to imagine. There is no NO left.
Here in Atlanta, when Nagin came begging the people to return they asked him... What would they be returning to? Nagin wants them desperately because an election is coming. The refugees in Atlanta see a new start here, where they can provide for themselves without living in NO.
I saw a lot of this when I was there. The hurricane hit rich and poor alike.
I just think of my relatives, good hardworking people, never asked the govt. or anybody for anything.
They signed a contract for a roofer and carpenter the day we left.
What is astounding is how wide an area was affected.
Basically from Texas to Florida the Gulf Coast has been decimated. It's going to take time to get all the repairs made. In the meantime there needs to be somewhere for these people to live.
You got that right. Wish I knew what I could do to help in some way.
Just found out my relatives from NO who fled to Lake Charles applied for housing (trailers) in LC while they were there. Now they are back in NO (and back to work) and FEMA told them they could have housing in LC, because that is where they applied.
Go figure.
BTW,
The relative I stayed with while in your area voted for Jindel, the ones from NO, while I'm not sure, I suspect they are big democrats like their father was and voted for Blanco.
Glad to hear Jindal is involved in this. Hope he runs for governor again, I think he'd be elected, don't you?
I think he will simply because he is doing a good job for the state in Congress and it looks like he's doing things differently as far as going to the people in the affected areas outside of his district. People will remember that when they vote.
There is a feeling among many in the New Orleans business community of "not again". They don't want New Orleans to return to what it once was, and I can't say I disagree with them. They have a chance to rebuild the city to be the crown jewel of the South, as it was during antebellum times.
The truth is, this is not like the FEMA trailers here, where they give you a trailer and you place it on your property. From what my cousin has told me, FEMA wants to set up these big trailer park like complexes in areas of the city that were not devasted, basically, housing projects but with trailers, and rightfully so, the residents are opposing this with every bone in their body. Much of what made New Orleans a grand city and a fun city has been preserved, areas built before 1900 fared pretty well, and thats what gave the city it's character anyway.
I actually live in one of those hurricane ravaged areas. I know of at least one house on Scenic Drive that has basically been abandoned by the owner (it was on riverside), and if you go down Bay Front Road, you see basically the same damn thing. Granted, most people who got the trailers down here put them in their backyards, but still, it's a tense situaton. Alot of houses are up for sale around here, including several in the Scenic area. People who have just decided to up and move somewhere else. Luckily, our house was elevated so we only had flooding in our garage (we did lose a vehicle), though our beachhouse on Dauphin Island is completely totaled, and when I say totaled, I mean, there are a few planks left from the house where it actually stood. And this house had withstood Georges too.
I know that as you continue along the bay, on the part of D.I.P south of the canal, it looks as if alot of those homes really got taken too. I'd assume Mon Louis and Fowl River took it hard too, same for Belle Fontaine.
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