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Thread #84107 Message #1553048
Posted By: Bill D
30-Aug-05 - 06:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: more hurricane warnings
Subject: RE: BS: more hurricane warnings
Ebbie...yes, I don't doubt that every effort will be made to remove people from the area...as soon as they can be reached and a place found for them...many of whom have no place to go.
In 1947, we spent several weeks at Jackson Barracks, a military base, which may not be usable at this time.
I suspect that places like military bases in Texas, Arkansas, etc...will be looked at for emergency housing as the waters recede. Where DO you put a million people whose homes may not be available for months...if ever? Entire businesses will go under as a result of this, and many people will end up moving to other parts of the country and trying to fit in.
The mind boggles at trying to predict the waves of fall-out from this! (How about Bush using this as a way to speed up oil drilling in ANWR?)
Did you see pictures of gulf oil drilling platforms which had been torn loose and washed ashore, one of them hitting a bridge?
...and many more deaths to be reported as searches are made, just as happened in the Tsunami