[BurbankKarl]

[Navy Patriot]

These cruise ships better be the six star rating if they expect to be accepted by New Orleans evacuees.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thanks for the ping!

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTW....did you ever hear the NUMBER of kids who are coming out here for schooling??

[DakotaRed]

Personally, I think able-bodied male evacuees should be housed in tents, outside of the New Orleans city limits, where they could sleep and rest after they worked a normal shift helping to clean and recover their city, hopefully further upriver.

Why should they lounge on a cruise ship while our troops are there working on recovering bodies and cleaning the city up?

They don't go and work, cut off their "guvmint" check!!!

It's time to stop the free ride, that's what ended up causing a lot of this mess. A welfare state leaving people dependent on an AWOL local "guvmint."

[axes_of_weezles]

Carnivals are the barf boats. I beleive these are the ones that have had that stomach virus.

Also, See post 8 in this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478165/posts

These are going to be used by the relief workers per DoD.

Fing NYT can't read the DoD press releases.

[axes_of_weezles]

· The secretary of transportation is seeking DoD concurrence to use four Maritime Ready Reserve Fleet ships as temporary housing for relief workers;


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478176/posts

Illiterates at the NYT

[digger48]

Is Major Owens gonna accuse Bush of using the ships to seed the feeding patterns of sharks?

[TXnMA]

A FEMA spokesman said the agency has also put out a call to producers of "manufactured housing" and recreational vehicles - campers and the like - asking for assistance, and has placed orders for more than 50,000 trailers.

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New Orleans is a major containerized shipping port, and you can see hundreds of those empty, semi-trailer-sized containers floating around in train yards, etc. IOW, the containers are already on-site.

I propose that FEMA bring NO workers back as contractors and set up teams to :

• Recover and place the containers in "villages".
• Empty, steam clean and sanitize the interiors
• Install windows
• Install wiring and HVAC
• Insulate and panel the interiors
• Build-in bunk beds, desks, etc.
• Use this "container city" for housing re-construction workers -- many of whom have just been paid to build their own lodgings.

Of course, I advocate using salvaged materials -- and displaced area workers -- wherever possible. And no unions!!!

Who knows -- if those folks work on building their own new homes, they might even take reasonable care of them -- unlike the case in the typical "projects".

[JoeGar]

This reminds me of the early 1970s when New York City began placing welfare mothers in the Waldorf Astoria hotel -- only to hear complaints about the maid service!

[JoeGar]

Six years ago, Hurricane Floyd flooded eastern NC. FEMA moved poor folks into temporary mobile homes until they could find permanent housing. Amazingly, some still cannot find permanent housing. Surprise, surprise. Will Carnival ever get its cruise ships back?