Reply #54: just don't try to watch anything

[UpInArms]

on the news that covers those folks in Biloxi!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/biloxi_s_forgotten;_ylt=AlKChnRAikuP13GVqVHhnAsDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

BILOXI, Miss. - In the poorest of neighborhoods here, people sleep outside with no running water or power. They live among starving cats, rotting heaps of garbage and constant, buzzing flies. The bathroom is anywhere and everywhere. The filth is inescapable.

Weeks after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their homes and jobs, many people in east Biloxi are living amid the rubble of their own houses, waiting for the
Federal Emergency Management Agency to deliver the trailers they have applied for — or for other federal assistance.

"We just wait and pray," said Kenneth Albus, 45, who has spent weeks in the wreckage of his rented house, taking care of friend Margaret Nevels, a 65-year-old woman with swollen ankles and a heart condition.

People subsisting in similar, squalid conditions can be found all over east Biloxi, this city's version of the lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans and only blocks behind the wealthy casinos that line the coast.

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