Steve's Breaking NOLA news thread, Part Two

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http://www.wlbz2.com/newscenter/article.asp?id=26018

Katrina Evacuees Being Moved To Houston


The evacuees from Hurricane Katrina who've been housed at the Louisiana Superdome will be headed to Houston, where shelter is being set up for them at the Astrodome.

HOUSTON (AP) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing nearly 500 buses for a convoy traveling the 350 miles to Houston.

A spokeswoman for Texas Governor Rick Perry says the Astrodome's schedule has been cleared through December to serve as a shelter for evacuees.

An emergency management official in Houston tells The Associated Press that plans are in the works to provide a "full shelter operation for 25-thousand people." Most of them will come from the Superdome. Conditions there have deteriorated rapidly since the storm came through. It knocked out the air conditioning and tore holes in the roof. And toilets there are broken.

Louisiana's governor says the evacuees at the Superdome, and elsewhere in New Orleans, would have to be moved out of the city.

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