Memphis Welcomes Storm Victims -- a GOOD NEWS story!

[DemBones DemBones]

By Jeffrey Meitrodt
Staff writer

MEMPHIS -- Local businesses and churches in Memphis have rolled out the welcome mat to Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Hotels have cut rates by one third, while local churches have provided dinner and an offer of $100 in free groceries each week for those evacuees who show their driver's licenses or indentification cards from the stricken area.

Local restaurants also have slashed meal tabs 50 percent for people from Louisiana. At one restaurant, a waitress refused a tip. She told evacuees if she could do more, she would.

Many apartments have cut their short-term leases from month to month and are offering rents of $150 monthly as well as providing furniture.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/

[cquik18]

1. As bad as I rip Memphis....

...that's good to hear! And as a native Memphian, you can bet your sweet ass I'll do what I can to help out!

WE ARE ALL FROM NEW ORLEANS.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Don't rag on Memphis, now. I have fond memories of listening to WDIA

when I was in high school. ;-)

[cquik18]

3. WDIA is still there...

am1070wdia.com

[Henny Penny]

4. There was some more good news earlier...

don't know if it was already posted as the search facility was down...

But Fats Domino is safe and well. Saw that on wwltv earlier.

[cquik18]

5. That's great to hear!

I know they got him out of his house and he was at the Superdome...hopefully he was evacuated to safety...