People can't stay in football stadiums indefinitely; why can't we

[merbex]

purchase or construct Quonset huts/mobil homes and place them in sections of military bases or somewhere in LA close to where the evacuees are from?

[murray hill farm]

1. Could, but won't...

makes way too much sense.

[Historic NY]

2. I would suggest moving them to the bases they plan to close.....

there is infrastructure in place, the buildings for the most part are usable. The facilities are already being funded by John Q. Taxpayer. They can support thousands of people quite easily, they are like small cities or towns.

Then of course this would disrupt Rummy the Dummy plans.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. Or just recently closed bases

that are not long past shutdown with base housing still there.

[merbex]

4. I thought about that,but if you provide work for these people without

jobs you are accomplishing 2 things

[SheilaT]

5. I've been saying for a couple of days now

that we need to be looking at a major resettlement effort. Except that in reality it's too early to be thinking about that in a realistic way. How quickly could any of us come to the understanding that we can never go back and have to start our lives over in a different place? Especially if your family has lived in one place for generations?

Because I moved around as both a child and adult, the idea of moving to a new city is always appealing (and this is with middle class resources to do so). But if I and my parents and grandparents and so on back had always lived here moving away would be almost unimaginable. And to have abandoned everything I own, a lifetime of possessions and memories?

But it will need to be done on some scale. For the moment the question is where to send all these displaced people and how to appropriately shelter them. And then start getting kids in school. Adults into jobs. It's going to be a very long process.

[teach1st]

6. My mother...

...who lives in the Florida panhandle, told me that Eglin Air Force Base, near Ft. Walton, is building a massive air-conditioned tent city. According to Mom, the nearby communities are pitching in to get things done.

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/APN/509021331&cachetime=5

[SheilaT]

8. This is very good to see.

I wish it were being more widely told on the TV. Hopefully word about these kinds of accommodations will get out soon, along with additional relocation of the disaster victims.

It is completely unimaginable to me to lose everything I own and needing to go somewhere else for an indefinite time. I'm at least middle class with some assets I could tap, although they'd run out soon enough if I were unable to get paid employment. So many of those we're seeing who went to the Superdome, the Convention Center, or were plucked from their rooftops have absolutely nothing at all.

I'd hope that the "tent cities" and such at the various bases would quickly employ the residents to work in the many services that would need to be provided.

[teach1st]

7. duplicate post

I hate when that happens.

[alarimer]

9. Also why not hire some of the displaced to help with the cleanup

Instead of using Halliburton. Or make Hallibuton hire local labor. The jobs might not be great but at least it's a paycheck.

[woodsprite]

10. After all, with gas prices, these certainly won't be selling. n/t