Rescuers made their way through piles of debris and water-filled streets in Texas seaside towns on Sunday after Hurricane Ike flooded hundreds of miles of U.S. coastline, cut power to millions and pummeled the oil hub of Houston.
A weakened Ike pushed northward after slamming into the Texas coast as a giant Category 2 hurricane on Saturday, leaving extensive devastation in its wake.
Officials have barely begun to assess the damage, which early estimates put in the billions of dollars. There were no confirmed reports of deaths from the hurricane.
Ike, which idled a quarter of U.S. crude oil production and refining capacity, swamped the island city of Galveston and hammered Houston, the fourth most populous U.S. city.
Ike was bigger than Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, but its impact was not as devastating.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080914/ts_nm/storm_ike_dc
Now, does this state of emergency continue to exist in Loisiana?
http://bayoulibertyrelief.org/node/156
President Bush has reneged on his promises to Katrina’s victims. Shamefully, the president has chosen the interests of bureaucracy over those of American towns on the brink of failure.
Over a year and a half later, there are 64,000 people still sleeping in trailers in Louisiana and far too many communities without schools, hospitals and other basics.
And would anyone care to bet that the feds will not be dragging their collective feet over the damage done by Ike in Texas?
Of course, it would be argued that lessons have been learned from Katrina, and are being put to good use in Texas. But if that is the case, why then are they not being applied to New orleans? There are still in excess of 2800 FEMA trailers housing victims of Katrina in New Orleans. Would the good folks of Texas put up with this, three years hence?
Stumble It!
The US government will take better care of its more affluent citizens.
Ya think...........?
The US government will take better care of its more affluent citizens.
really? do you care to elaborate?
And what makes you think Obama would change things he did not do much for thr poor in chiucago as a community orginizer, state senator, and US senator.
And has anyone noticed their is not as much media coverage of theis compared to Katrina?
Fanny Mae & Freddy Mac, compared to those (still) living in FEMA trailers in New Orleans after 3 years.
Fanny Mae & Freddy Mac, compared to those (still) living in FEMA trailers in New Orleans after 3 years.
HUH ?
Why would they be living in those "trailers?"
Do you think the Gov't should be buying them new homes?
They are in those "trailers" because they have no place else to go. Have you ever been to NO and seen the crap the Katrina wiped out? Most of the homes could have been blown over by a ceiling fan. These people have no money for a new house and I’ll wager a bet they had no insurance either.
It’s now become trailer welfare city.
Do you think the Gov't should be buying them new homes?
They are in those "trailers" because they have no place else to go.
Now this may be a concept foreign to you, but the US prides itself on being a "Christian" nation, and one of the fundamental tenets of Christianity is lending a helping hand -- especially to those whose fortunes were beggared in the first place. It's called simple Christian charity.
Yes, the government should have put them into new homes, because people like that are the backbone of America. They are the ones who end up fighting America's wars, so the "Sarah Palin's" don't have to.
You see, it's called a "nation", which means that people have a common cause that differentiates them from other "nations", and help each other out in dire times. Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac were on the receiving end of this charity. So why not those on the other end of the scale?