Our First Katrina Refugees

Dan Luke wrote:

The governor of Texas has got to be wondering, about now, just what the long
term repercussions are going to be for Houston and other of his cities. Of
course, in today's no accountability world, he may just figure it's the
mayors' problem.

I was told by a Houstonite, that if just one opens a cajun restaurant,
it'd be worth it...

I didn't have the heart to tell him that New Orleans isn't really cajun
country...

Ron Natalie wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:

Interestingly, others in New Orleans have decided that Iowa doesn't
sound so good to them:

A bunch of buses went down from DC and came back mostly empty as well.
Washington and Iowa aren't on the top of people's list to relocate to.

Here in Montana we have offered to take in several thousand and put them
up at the long defunct Glasgow Air Force Base. You wanna talk about
culture shock, wait until about January 15 and it's -50.

Rich Lemert wrote:

These are people who cannot conceive of moving even to someplace like
Monroe, LA, because it would be so far from home and family, and it's
not just the under-educated that think this way. (My wife worked with
an engineer who turned down a job offer that would have involved an
equivalent scale of relocation because his wife thought this way.) It's
also an attidude that is not limited to the deep south - I've seen it
expressed even more forcefully in Appalachia.

To you and me the decision would be a no-brainer. These people aren't
you and me.

Monroe? Far to far north... brrrr

"Icebound" wrote in message
...

"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
...

Merriam-Webster: "refugee: one that flees; especially: a person who
flees
to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution". What's
being objected to is the connotation of having fled from a foreign
country; obviously, that connotation is not objectionable in situations
where people really do flee internationally.

World Book: A person who flees for refuge or safety in time of war,
persecution, or disaster.

(no mention of country)


I don't think the terminology is worth obsessing over. But still less is
anyone's obsession over it worth obsessing over.


...which makes it all the more peculiar that the President and the Black
leaders would obsess so... and they are *extremely* adamant about it, too.
:-? This is but one of hundreds of articles about the issue:
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000056047

Anyway, I just didn't want Jay to get in trouble with the language police,
so, having completed the mission: end of refugee-semantics sub-thread
hopefully :-)

With the "leaders" sitting around deciding what words to use it is not
surprising nothing got done for days after the hurricane hit.

Morgans wrote:

There are going to be outbreaks of NASTY things, in
concentrations we have never seen before, if we don't get everyone out, and
now.

In the real sense of "we", that is, you and I, yes, we've never seen these
before. In the historical sense, the U.S. has seen massive epidemics in the
past. Cholera is a near-certainty. Typhoid will be right behind it (or maybe
ahead, who knows).

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

john smith wrote:
Well, there goes the BRAC decisions!
Any facility destined to be closed will now become an evacuee
resettlement facility.

Not so. The closings are scheduled to take place over a 5 year period, so none
of the facilities are actually available yet. Take a look at the ones closed
during Clinton's administration. Those may be available.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Ross Richardson wrote:
Wait for the first winter!!

You don't have to wait that long. When it starts getting chilly about a month
before they're used to it, they'll be hankering for warmer climes.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

"Montblack" wrote

"Some people believe that the Woolly Bear caterpillar can tell if the
winter
is going to be mild or rough. If the stripe on the woolly bear is narrow,
it
means the winter is going to be mild. If the stripe on the caterpillar is
wide, it means the winter is going to be easy."

That makes no sense. Wide or narrow, and neither tells if it will be a hard
winter.
--
Jim in NC

I think it's an attempt to move people to a safer environment and to limit
the number of emergency cases that the workers will have to return to if the
people stay. Imagine the diseases and illness that can be prevented by
getting the remaining people out of that infectious area. Every person that
insists on staying and then later requires emergency assistance stresses the
relief and emergency response efforts even further.

The whole shock and awe that is now starting in the media about the e.coli
in the water amazes me. (they're starting to talk about mosquitos also) I
guess I'll never get used to just how stupid the media or the politicians
they huddle up with are. Just WHERE do they think all the sewage went??
They've got dead bodies, corpses from graveyards, dead animals, and rotting
food all floating in that water and when they discover e.coli they are
surprised??? and now the Governor says that instead of continuing to
evacuate N.O. as it's mayor desires, she thinks they should study how
infected the water is??? I'll buy her a brand new set of chest high waders
and all the test tubes she wants, but I think we all know what she'll find.

Jim

("Morgans" wrote)
That makes no sense. Wide or narrow, and neither tells if it will be a
hard
winter.


Good catch :-)

http://www.coldspringschool.org/Mill/wooly.html
Ana, Riane, Leah M, Marina, and Rachel from Cold Springs (Elementary?)
School get a B.

They had the best pictures on their site which is why I chose the link.
Details got past me.

He
http://www.almanac.com//preview2000/woollybears.html
"According to legend, the wider that middle brown section is (i.e., the more
brown segments there are), the milder the coming winter will be. Conversely,
a narrow brown band is said to predict a harsh winter."


Montblack ...and much brown this winter?