Saturday, September 29, 2007

Watching Those We Chose: Katrina: two years on, and the tragedy is still unfolding

Watching Those We Chose: Katrina: two years on, and the tragedy is still unfolding:

"Two years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged the gulf coast, nearly
67,000 families displaced by the storms are still stuck in FEMA trailers
throughout the region. Alabama and Texas have small FEMA-trailer populations,
and Mississippi has about 16,500 of the trailers still in use; but Louisiana,
hardest hit by the storm, has the greatest number of displaced people in
Katrinaville trailer parks. In Louisiana, nearly 48,000 of the trailers are
still in service."


Why do so many people view the government as their parents. It is probably the same sad lot that couldn't leave the city without help from the government that now can't get out of the trailers. The government was blamed for not getting the people out of the city, which I think the government could have done more. They will probably be blamed for these people still being in the trailers two years later. The government should help people who are helping themselves, when people refused to leave the city, they were not helping themselves. Two years of still being in these trailers makes me think these people are not helping themselves enough.

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