Posted on 09/03/2005 5:40:24 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
DENVER — With shelters in Louisiana and neighboring states overflowing with people displaced by flooding from Hurricane Katrina, Colorado officials on Saturday said hundreds of refugees will be housed at the former Lowry Air Force base.
Details weren’t immediately available on the shelter, which more than 1,000 miles away from New Orleans. Gov. Bill Owens’ spokesman Dan Hopkins said the Federal Emergency Management Agency requested the emergency housing late Friday.
Thousands of people have been evacuated from New Orleans and sent to the Houston Astrodome, and other shelters in the area, which are quickly filling up.
Texas on Friday opened shelters in Dallas and San Antonio and the governor there began asking mid-sized cities in that state to find additional space.
FEMA officials did not immediately return phone messages.
I'm not sure where they're going but I believe my state (mich) will take 10,000.
WTF? Lowery AFB ain't no mo! Where it used to be is a big golf course.
I have fond memories of Lowery. I attended electronics school there in 1966 and returned in 1974 as a civilian to maintain the B-52 trainers.
I heard Michael Savage suggest this on his show. Use bases.
AND cut off all funding to illegals.
The last part was just BRACed.
Sorry. It's gone. Golf course had reverted to weeds the last time I passed by there.
My husband and I rented an old military apartment on former Lowry 95/96. At the time, there were dozens of apartments still waiting to be renovated. The housing on the former base was open to lower income people, which we qualified for by being enlisted. The apartment was nice. They could do a lot worse.
Me too. I went there in 1960 for electronics training, stayed about 9 months before shipping out to Carswell in Fort Worth (also closed now, I hear).
Understand, whoever you get, they are yours for life. These are welfare folks from a very Liberal state. They are accustomed to be given every thing they need to live. I live in a small town in Missouri, and we are going to get some as well.
I know it but I can't let them die. The worst part is the fact that Michigan democrats just barely hang on to the state. If "jenni" plays her cards righ she can place those people where she needs them.
It looks beautiful, but the new "residents" will reduce it to a slum within a year. Maybe sooner.
Yes, we do not want them to die. We want them to be able to live up to their dreams, but how - this is going to happen so fast your head will swim. Your "jenni" will place them for political advantage.
It's already had residents for a lot more than a year. It isn't a slum.
ping
In the interests of geopolitics, lets note two things:
1) These people won't be voting in Louisiana next year for the 2006 elections. Probably won't be home by then. Many won't go home. They'll have actual proper jobs where they are.
2) Where they are going seem to be "out of reach" blue or red states. Sending a few 10s of thousands to TX does not risk Hillary winning TX.
3) Landrieu and Blanco are watching their base be shipped out of state. The clamors to rebuild will get louder when this reality hits various radar screens.
4) Add 1 GOP Senate seat when she's up.
Err, 4 things. :)
"No worries for longterm....it's too cold and snowy for Southerners."
I don't think so. I'm from Nashville and now live in Longmont and do just fine. The climate here is an improvment on Tennessee from my point of view. I've seen it 10 below in Middle Tennessee in the winter and 105 in the summer with 90 percent humidity. Of course the Denver Dems would love to add thousands of new voters.
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