Katrina Evacuees Trapped In Trailers - ("I want to go home")

[Kadie]

Aug 5, 2007 9:33 am US/Pacific

Katrina Evacuees Trapped In Trailers

(AP) BAKER, La. It was bad enough when Hurricane Katrina chased Carrie Lewis out of her assisted-living home in New Orleans. Now she fears the rest of her life may be spent in the isolation of a federally sponsored trailer park.

Because hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed so much affordable housing, Lewis and thousands of others displaced — mainly the poor, elderly and infirm — have nowhere else to go.

"I want to go home," said Lewis, 79, who now lives in the Renaissance Village trailer park. "They don't have places for old people in New Orleans yet. What am I supposed to do? I don't want to die in a little trailer in the middle of a field somewhere."

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Pamela Lomis and her two children feel abandoned. Lomis lives in a FEMA trailer in the Sugar Hill trailer park in the midst of cane fields near Convent, La., about midway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

It's 20 miles from the nearest grocery store. A single bus leaves each morning at 9 a.m. and returns at 4 p.m., Lomis' life line to a world that seems distant.

"We just sit around here with life slipping by," Lomis said. "We're just on hold. Just waiting for something that never comes," she said.

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http://cbs13.com/topstories/topstories_story_217123557.html

[acmavm]

1. She'll never go home. They don't want her there. Or the others like her.

Poor people and blacks aren't wanted. Developers have other plans.

I feels so sorry for this person. And all the displaced from NO. They have been abandoned by our leaders, by our government. Displaced by corporate Amerika and greed.

[Sadie4629]

2. Um . . . Not exactly trapped

I believe they could leave anytime they wanted to.

[Ezlivin]

3. Yep...they could just hook that trailer up to their Escalade and tow it somewhere else

You know, there is the matter of where they are to go to. And how they are to get there.

[musette_sf]

4. my comment was going to be

Go Where.... How?

but then i got afraid that i would then go on to get my post deleted.

your Escalade comment said what i wanted to say much more succinctly.

empathy is just not libertarians' strong suit.