Hurricanes KATRINA & RITA

These two big bad girls aren't fading into the sunset like all the others.

Just the other day it was reported in the Dallas Morning News that a convoy of three school busses with 200 hundred evacuee's on it from Boumont, Tx , were running from Rita. They said that they were turned away in six towns , while they were looking for shelter. They said that one town gave them some food but didn't have enough for everbody. These evacuee's are now complaining that they weren't treated to food and shelter. I guess that no one told them that these towns were full with evacuee's from Katrina. and that these relatives of them ate all the food. They also complained that it took them three day's to get to Dallas , a two hundred and fifty mile trip, and that most times they had to use the side of the road to relieve them selves. I don't think any town , church, or civic center would refuse any one at that time bathroom time. Getting off the track a little bit I have a question about that. How come we can eat and drink in public side by side , but when your on the road and you get caught short, so to speak, if you use the side of the road , a near by tree or bush, your aresseted for indecent exposer. Seem's like there is more places to put it in and very few to let it out.

They also complained that convience stores would close and lock the doors when they saw them pull up.
Well I would lock my doors too if I saw two hundred hungry ,mad people , show up on my door step . They were proably scared knowing what happened in New Orleans. They probably thought that they wouldnt have anything left on the shelves and nothing paid for. and no one in charge of the group.

I feel for all of those people , but the towns that they stopped at were full so you can't blame them. The person to blame is the one that was in charge of your convoy. He or she didn't have a plan or notify the proper authroities of what they were doing or where they were going. I feel that you have no complaints , only against your leader.

In New Orleans I have heard a disturbing story many times over. Home owners , in the aftermath of
Katrina , choose to stay in their homes , and protect their property and them selves from Looter, Robbers, Murder'ers and Rapist. Were forced and some dragged out of their homes in handcuffs, and arrested and their firearms taken away . And this happened in AMERICA not some other country. It's getting closer America , WAKE UP.

Peter B. Free