First Bus To Arrive At Astrodome Not From Superdome

[dogday]

http://www.click2houston.com/news/4923495/detail.html

Driver, 20, Says New Orleans Police Handed Him Keys To School Bus

POSTED: 7:11 am CDT September 1, 2005
UPDATED: 7:30 am CDT September 1, 2005

HOUSTON -- A bus of refugees left homeless and helpless by Hurricane Katrina arrived at the Astrodome, but they were not the evacuees who originally took shelter at the Superdome, Local 2 reported Thursday.

State and county officials said the Astrodome would only accept refugees from the Louisiana Superdome, but the first bus that arrived at the Astrodome Thursday night was actually stolen.


Since this happened, Houston has made the decision to accept people from NO and will consider anyone who is displaced from NO to come to Houston.

[Oreo]

1. Disgusting

"We had walked on the interstate for two hours. (Officials) were passing us up. They weren't even worrying about us. They were just worrying about the people in the Superdome," evacuee Makivia Horton told Local 2.

Authorities let the refugees on the bus stay while other evacuees already in Houston have been turned away because they were not from the Superdome.

[dogday]

3. They have since made a decision to take people

on a case by case basis. If you have nowhere to go, they will not turn you away.

[elehhhhna]

4. They're letting the non-SD folks in , since 6:30 a.m. central here.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. No leadership.... none