Two years after Rita, town still lives in trailers

[tammywammy]

Two years after Rita, town still lives in trailers
Residents of Cameron, La., dealing with lawsuits, long drives for food

CAMERON, La. - This Louisiana town may have dried out and cleaned up since getting flattened by Hurricane Rita, but its recovery is moving in slow motion: Nearly everyone still lives in temporary housing.

The post office operates out of a trailer. The town's only bank works out of a trailer. Darlene Dyson sells shrimp from a trailer, then picks up her 7-year-old son and takes him to their home — a trailer.

"It's not like it was before the storm, that's for sure," Dyson said.

Rita struck two years ago Monday as a Category 3 storm whose 120-mph wind and 9-foot storm surge ruined every structure in the southwestern Louisiana towns of Johnson Bayou and Holly Beach. It caused similar destruction in southeastern Texas.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20957627/



2 years today Hurricane Rita struck.

[uppityperson]

1. k&r for Rita survivors and everyone still struggling from this stuff

[tammywammy]

2. My family survived Rita well

But a lot of people didn't. I searched and there are no Rita threads in LBN or GD today, very sad.

[kdmorris]

3. After Katrina, many people forget about Rita

My thoughts are with you.

[tammywammy]

5. I've noticed

It seems that if it's not NOLA then no one cares. :shrug: Including all those other cities devastated from Katrina.

My family was lucky, really lucky, during Rita. I saw whole buildings destroyed while my family's houses were all still standing.

[kdmorris]

8. Yes, I've noticed that as well

Katrina was HUGE and hit way more than just NOLA.

I'm glad you still have your houses. Many people don't realize how bad Wilma was down here, either. I saw a whole trailer smashed against a fence. No one was home at the time, but I cried a lot thinking of that person coming home to that, after they could leave the shelter.

I care. I can't do anything financially to help, but I do try to make sure the word gets out.

[RB TexLa]

11. Please. America cares neither about New Orleans or any of Louisiana

[uppityperson]

13. How about MS?

[uppityperson]

4. Thanks for posting. I am guilty of Katrina focusing also and appreciate your post.

I hope they are doing ok. How are they doing?

[tammywammy]

6. Oh, my family's doing fine

While they were evacuated during Rita they all bought generators, that they got to use a few weeks ago during Humberto.

They were all very fortunate to have houses to go home to after Rita with not too much damage.

[brer cat]

7. Thank you for posting.

I'm guilty. Katrina pushed Rita right off my radar.

kpete has an amazing thread up comparing the daily cost of the Iraq war with the cost of insuring our children. The same math needs to be applied to helping our victims of disasters. The negligence of this administration, and its waste of trillions of dollars on a war to enrich their cronies is absolutely obscene.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1896319

Recommended.

[aaronbees]

9. No grocery stores? No pharmacies?

That's heartbreaking! But ... a bar is open.

Washington Post photo of post-Rita flooding:


:kick: for those still facing hardships there and along the Gulf Coast in a country that's really let them down

[uppityperson]

10. Be nice to get 1 more rec

[Suich]

12. K & R!

:kick:

[tammywammy]

14. kick

[Chovexani]

15. We are the richest country on earth and we don't even help our own

What did they say about "the least of these"?

:cry:

[tammywammy]

16. kick

[tammywammy]

17. One last kick before I let this go