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Paula Lane WAVELAND, MISS. As water filled the house where Lane and her friend Roy Henderson sought shelter, Henderson dived into the floodwaters and returned with a small boat that had been tied to a neighbor's tree. Clinging desperately to their tiny ark, 10 people floated to safety through the hurricane's winds. "It felt like somebody dropped nuclear bombs on us. There's a lot of dead people here. We've lost a lot of family members...
Citizens are looking for leadership that will bring immediate solutions: they need potable water, they need shelter, they need food, in many cases they need medical attention. They don't necessarily know what level of government provides these things--and they don't care. They want the response...
...panel. About 50 students gathered on the plush leather couches of the Lowell Junior Common Room to hear the five speakers. Panelists began by discussing the causes of homelessness. Macy DeLong, who said she was once homeless herself, focused on how mental health issues can lead individuals to lose shelter and even reject offers of assistance. Now the founder and executive director of an organization that provides counseling and employment for the homeless, DeLong described homelessness as a loss of control. “What being homeless is all about is being controlled by someone else,” said...
...transportation to evacuate residents - as well as their pets. The trains will help in the migration. The city is working with airlines to make sure tourists with tickets get a plane ride out. But residents who stay are on their own, says Mayor Ray Nagin. There will be no ?shelter of last resort? for riding out the storm, no replay of the horrors that occurred after Hurricane Katrina at the Superdome or the Convention Center...
...Pointedly, the emergency evacuation makes no allowances for shelter for those who opt not to evacuate. City officials do not want a repeat of the hellish conditions at the Superdome and the Convention Center, where thousands of people sought shelter after Katrina. The images and tales of people stranded in the shelters without lights, air conditioning or adequate food and water supplies have lingered long after the storm. ?As I?ve stated before, there will be no shelter of last resort in the event of a major hurricane that?s coming our way,? Nagin said. ?The Convention Center will...