I just don’t understand this. When Katrina hit we took in thousands of people from NOLA. There were wall-to-wall cots at the Astrodome, George R. Brown Convention Center, several high school gyms, local colleges. People were shuttled around on school buses. Worked there a couple of days at one shelter. Lunchtime was thousands of sandwiches made in assembly line fashion. Doesn’t anybody there know how to organize anything? Need to get rid of the governors and turn this part of the operation over to some older mothers or let the military do it.
I’ve been wondering the same thing, Grams. I, too, remember the shelters set up for Katrina folks at the George R Brown, etc. We saw endless video on the nightly news of the shelters, the people and the (well organized) food and supplies being distributed. Where are the shelters in NY and NJ?
Same reason they didn’t want National Guard on the street, same reason they wanted to run a marathon.
They want to pretend its all better since Obama dropped by for a photo-op.
In New Jersey things are much more orderly. I live in the bay shore area and got my power back on Friday. I waited on a gas line 4 hours. People here were respectful and waited their turn. The Jersey shore was hit just as hard, if not harder, than NYC. There are no people in the streets freezing. Shelters are set up here everywhere. At mass this morning, our church said not to bring more clothes because they received so much they have no room to store them. The outpouring has been amazing here. Many people on Staten Island don’t want to leave their homes because they fear looting so they stay there and freeze. A lot of the homes flooded on the lower levels so they are gutting the bottom levels and living upstairs. They can’t turn on the power because of all the standing water. These people are truly in a bad way.
My kids and I, with a couple of clean up crew cooked and served 6,300 pasta meals in the Astrodome in the first two days it was open.. I was exhausted, but happy to do it, and would do it again..
However, I have to say I wanted to kick the Fire Marshal’s A$$, before I was done.. She was always on our butt about the flames from the boiling water on the friggin stoves..
I kept telling her it was WATER, not grease, so chill.. She was dumb as a sack of rocks!
The folks that you would except, were really grateful, and couldn’t thank us enough, the others didn’t even smile, let alone say thank you..