Sorry Hurricane Katrina Survivors, You’re Not Worthy of Nice Housing
April 15, 2008 · Print This Article
Boy, this is a real WTF moment. You’d think that Katrina survivors have been through enough. They managed to make it through one of the worst natural disasters in our nation’s history, though many of them lost friends and family members as well as their homes, businesses and communities.
We all know about the embarrassing debacle that was the aftermath, what with FEMA’s brilliant ‘assistance’. Then, these poor schleps were housed in toxic trailers full of mold and formaldehyde. In an effort to quickly move families out of the trailers and into safer housing, FEMA has developed colorful ‘Mississippi Cottages’, which are being touted as a cheap, efficient solution - and for the most part, people are thrilled.
Local municipalities, however, have an objection: they’re ‘too nice’.
From the New York Times:
They fear people who get cottages will simply live in them and not rebuild their houses, said Mike Womack, executive director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
“They’re too nice,” he said. “I’ve heard this over and over again.”
Too bad for you, Katrina victims - you’re just not good enough for these little $32,000 cottages. Back to the toxic death boxes you go!
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Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons & Lori Waselchuk for The New York Times
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It’s so easy, anyone could do it!
Try living above sea level today!
(why the bloodly charlie foxtrot are they rebuilding, again? It’s STILL a bad place to have a city)
Sure, move up to my neck of the woods (Wisconsin), and freeze in a blizzard, move to Arizona and die of dehydration when the Colorado River dries up, move to California and die in an earthquake or wildfire. Iowa - Tornadoes, yada, yada yada. ROY, TELL ME WHERE SPECIFICALLY YOU LIVE (SECURE from NATURAL DISASTER) and I will start funding the migration of those disadvantaged to camp in your front yard.
Grew up in the Pacific Northwest. It snows, but it doesn’t get wiped from the earth by anything, certainly not by anything as predictable enough to have it’s own bloody SEASON.
Currently, northern california. It RAINS here, so wildfires aren’t the problem they are in Southern California (and yes, I mock those unfortunate, if foreseeable, people too). Earthquakes are also a non-issue where I am.
But I’d like to point out that the parts worst hit were in a position relying on a dyke to keep the BLOODY OCEAN out. There are some folk south of me behind a dyke that is sadly in disrepair, but that’s just a river. And there’s no HURRICANE possibility. The damage done to the rest of the entire region is unfortunate, but the parts that were below or at sea level will never have my sympathy. The ocean always wins.
Oh, also, the federal response to help those affected immediately afterwards was still abysmal. I may utterly condemn poor choices over the past two centuries of city planning, but when people are in obvious and dire need…
So, get out the checkbook, my yard is open.