I live in Houston and am watching what's going on:

[babylonsister]

it appears the Dome is full up. There are a lot of places for other people to go, but abc13 is stating it's inadequate; head shed reporter just asked who is in charge? It's not pretty; perhaps one person died on a bus.

[aquart]

1. What other places?

[riverwalker]

3. Camp Crawford

nice big compound, lots of room. Empty too.

[NYC Liberal]

2. The stands are EMPTY

Why are people not being let in there??

[OneBlueSky]

5. they can't do that . . . it would be absolutely unlivable . . .

there are already five or six thousand on the field, and it's already cramped . . . filling that stadium and expecting anything but chaos is madness . . . people would go stir crazy within days . . . what they have now is about the max they can do there without causing yet another catastrophe . . .

[Extend a Hand]

4. thousands of people

all over the country have offered rooms at
hurricanehousing.com

I have seen *nothing* about it on the corporate owned media.

I also saw where they aren't letting people in with supplies or letting people leave NOLA.

WTF is going on???????

[bliss_eternal]

6. Maybe some of us here at DU need to storm the media about

hurricanehousing.com!!!

Seriously, we all want to help somehow--wouldn't it be infinitely more helpful to get some of the people to clean, safe homes that are willing to take them in, even if just for a little while?