Posted on 09/06/2008 5:17:56 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Even as residents who fled the city ahead of Hurricane Gustav continued to return, Mayor Ray Nagin said Saturday that it appeared the city would need to start worrying about Hurricane Ike.Hurricane Ike grew to Category 4 strength Saturday and could head into the Gulf of Mexico by early next week, putting residents along the Gulf Coast on alert less than a week after Gustav made landfall in south Louisiana.
Nagin told reporters he's worried about fast-moving Ike and about the wherewithal of residents who one week ago began leaving ahead of Gustav. Reactions of residents who've returned have ranged from relief to find their homes not flooded to frustration with the cost of evacuating and time away from home.
"Our citizens are weary and they're tired and they have spent a lot of money evacuating, some of them, from Gustav," Nagin said Saturday evening. "My expectations this time is, it will be very difficult to move the kind of numbers out of this city that we moved during Gustav."
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Some of them are still here in Mobile wanting FEMA to pay their motel and gasoline bills.
THEN STOP LIVING IN A F***ING SINKHOLE!
Maybe NO will start to regard Nagin as a Jonah figure.
Gustav was no big deal to them, so alot will stay. If Ike comes and blows floods again, whose fault will it be?
I say we write New Orleans off. I hate to say that with all the history there, and the property owned. But it seems senseless to keep pouring money into rebuilding what could be wiped out over and over.
You stupids in the govt.
Folks flee to ‘safer” areas, and then you take days before you allow them to come home? Folks sleep in their cars along the road because they can’t afford hotels and the next time they won’t leave their homes and the storm may be much worse then. But they didn’t leave cause the “authorities wouldn’t let them home last time.
Hey, Ray! If they want to stay, that’s great. Then you won’t have to fire up the school buses. You can just leave them in the lots to maybe be destroyed again.
Has School Bus Nagin has discovered a way to lower New Orlean’s crime rate?
22 arrests made of Gustav evacuees in Louisville
The Courier-Journal • September 4, 2008
Over the past two days, Louisville Metro Police have made about 22 arrests of people who were evacuated from hurricane zones in Louisiana to the Kentucky Exposition Center.
Lt. Col. Phil Turner said that on Wednesday night, 16 of the evacuees were taken to jail on charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct and other alcohol-related charges. They were mainly arrested on Preston Street after drinking and causing a disturbance at a gas station and liquor store near the exposition center, Turner said.
On Tuesday, there were six arrests, Turner said. Five of those were on alcohol and disorderly conduct charges.
The other was on a felony sexual abuse charge after a man attempted to grab a teenage boy at the center, Turner said. The teen was not injured, he said. That was the most serious of the charges and the only one that occurred inside the facility, he said.
About 12 officers have been on site at the exposition center providing security for the evacuees, Turner said, and staffing will be maintained at that level or higher until the evacuees return home.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/NEWS01/80904044
They just left Nashville and Knoxville and I’m guessing they stay. They are pissed that the Government can’t calculate the damage. They are idiots.
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