"The Greyhound terminal in Houston was closed, but people lined up ...

[understandinglife]

Rick Bowmer/Associated Press

... anyway hoping another bus would arrive."

Efficiently and effortlessly, the haves and have-mores during the past five years have relegated the majority of our fellow citizens to the status of 'sitting ducks' - awaiting slaughter, or prolonged misery.


Peace.

[tgnyc]

1. Holy shit. Not again.

[understandinglife]

3. Remember, those are folk who could actually pay to get on a bus ...

.... what about all those who can't pay and have no way to even get to the bus station .... and, so I ask, as I'm watching all these images of cars stalled on the highway, why are those vehicles not loaded with people, as many people per vehicle as could possibly fit?

Just one of many questions ... you would have thought someone might have asked, during the past several years, and then devloped strategies as to how to have anyone evacuating drive past certain gathering spots and load as many folk as possible per vehicle.

Rick Wilking/Reuters
Highways out of Houston became parking lots as people attempted to flee before Hurricane Rita hit.


Another question you might ask is why are vehicles sitting on the highway with only one person in them?!!!!


Peace.

[annabanana]

2. oh no...

please may they get out of there....

[CottonBear]

4. That scene looks familiar.

Just add hungry, thirsty people and a few dead bodies and VOILA!, you've got a NOLA convention center situation!
:sarcasm:
:scared:

[Roxy66]

5. Link?

[understandinglife]

6. On the NYTimes homepage (as of 1230PDT) ....

www.nytimes.com

And, if you right click on the image, and select properties, you will have the link to .jpg that the NYTimes has posted -- Rick Bowmer, as noted, is the photographer.


Peace.

[Igel]

7. The city/state/FEMA (I can't tell who, but I think responsibility's

shifting mid-stream ... Incident of National Significance, and all that) is trying to arrange to get people that can't get themselves out of the mandatory evacuation areas evacuated. They're working at getting those that are infirm or in no condition to help themselves out.

Most people not in the mandatory evacuation area, and whose residences aren't in danger of collapsing at 100 mph winds, don't have the same urgent need to be evacuated. So there is a smattering of people across the city that do have an urgent need to evacuate, but they have to find the number to call to arrange for pickup, if the city manages to get sufficiently organized (they may be sufficiently organized, I've been preoccupied recently). Those with more money can find a way to satisfy their wants; those with less, can't.

The biggest problem are the cars that have died on the evacuation routes. If those satisfying their wants hadn't mingled with those satisfying their needs, the state wouldn't be trying to figure out how to fix that particular problem.