[wildbill]

You couldn't make this up. I guess there will be no carved ice sculptures to brighten their lives after their harrowing experience.

[hiredhand]

What are their choices? Sheesh! FINE! Leave them there! I bet they don't stay any more than a couple of weeks with no food and water.

[SteveMcKing]

I bet they won't go to Antarctica either, the ingrates.

[Argus]

They're holding out for relocation to DisneyWorld.

[dfwddr]

You need to understand their fears....

Jesse told them Bush was going to sink the boat......

[msnimje]

I'll go!!!

[hiredhand]

Once again...maybe some more people will read it...:-)



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477607/posts

...or directly via...

http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026

Also a good one to read -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478273/posts

[Mulch]

They may be worried that Lincoln's post civil war plan is being implemented.

[nmh]

Some residents prefer to focus on finding family members while others want more time to explore options for getting on with their lives. All are struggling to comprehend the dramatic changes that have happened to them in less than a week.

"NO! I am scared," Sandra Johnson, 55, said at the thought of moving to a cruise ship. "I done seen enough of water."

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That's understandable. Plus they will be more partial to the south rather than the north and midwest.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

From the article "NO! I am scared," Sandra Johnson, 55, said at the thought of moving to a cruise ship. "I done seen enough of water."

Donna Smith, 24, wants to leave the sports arena, but not to a boat. She hopes to find an apartment for herself and her children, including 5-month-old Dakota.

"I can't live over water. I can't swim," she said. "I wouldn't want to see no more water. I saw enough already."

I guess I can understand those fears, but if I were in their position, I supect I'd be trying hard to overcome them. At least there's a little privacy there are locks to the doors and each room has a bathroom (though small).

[konaice]

Its just crazy. Private rooms, world class chefs, casinos, floor shows? (ok, maybe cancel the floor shows).

Yet they want to hunker down on cots in a stinky stadium.

I don't get it. These people were too dumb to save.!

[RetiredArmy]

Volunteers trying to fill buses bound for Kentucky also found few takers

LA, Chicago, Atlanta, NJ, NY, Detroit, with free hand outs, hey they are on the bus.

[Spok]

I take it the Trump Tower is full?

Some moron on CNN was talking about how this disaster has been particularly hard on the homeless. I had to think that one through-they had no homes before Katrina, they have no homes after Katrina. I'm so confused.

[traumer]

Hell no - we won't go !

[Hildy]

Did you read the whole article? Some don't want to go back and live over water. Do you blame them? The sight of water is traumatic for some. Some want to go on with their lives. They're still looking for family members. Do you have any compassion? They have lost everything, including family members. Can we give them any control of their lives? do they get a say in any of this? My God.

[My2Cents]

Deep psychological scars from unconscious memories of ancestors coming over in slave ships.

[publana]

There is a good reason they will not go to the cruise ships. It's the same reason so many of them stayed on their roofs. For those of you that aren't familiar with blacks, and I'm not being racist here, swimming is not their forte. Many are deathly afraid of water. Many will not get on a boat to save their lives. I'm not being facetious, but just telling you the way it is.

[DTogo]

Seems like once a month or so passengers on a cruise ship are getting sick from the food or water. It would be a shame if some trouble-makers from NOLA start trouble on a boat.

[keithtoo]

Yup, those midnight buffets are hell on the waistline.

And the forced limbo contests are even worse.<

Stay in the Dome - Houston has its annual two weeks of nice weather coming up in October.

[surely_you_jest]

Gee. What a surprise.

We are, by and large, talking about people for whom every single major life decision (other than to become pregnant) has been made for them by a social worker.

So now they balk. Is anybody surprised by this?

[queenkathy]

I was talking to my husband this week end and just think about how hard their life is in the Dome.

The Cruise Ship would be so much better. There, they could have a private conversation, private "intimate" time. I just don't get their thinking pattern...

Imagine the frustrations of living in one heck of a big campground! I hate camping.