Posts Tagged ‘Hurricane Ike’
Nearly 400 people are missing two weeks after Hurricane Ike hit parts of Texas.
“There are a lot of elderly folks, just looking at the age column,”Many of them are from the hardest hit areas of the county, including Boliver, Crystal Beach and Gilchrist.
About 75% of homes in the Galveston area are uninhabitable.
For the first time since Hurricane Ike blew away much of the city, residents of Galveston began streaming home today.But the city is in such bad shape, those hurrying back home were given an ominous warning: Bring tetanus shots, rat poisoning and don’t bring children.
If that’s not enough, planes are spraying the city with insecticide to prevent a boom in the mosquito population, the water isn’t drinkable and people are urged to wear face masks to guard against inhaling toxic mold that is proliferating in the sweltering city.
One way you can help is through giving to the Greater Houston Community Foundation.
Via / ABC Local, ABC National, y Para Justicia y Libertad
Struggling through Hurricane Ike
11:20 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Environment|Texas · Comments Off
17 Sep 2008
So it seems that Hurricane Katrina wasn’t enough practice for the government. Latest news on Hurricane Ike clean up is that FEMA is “struggling” with distribution issues. In other words, folks who are in desperate need of help, simply aren’t getting it:
“Where’s FEMA?” some evacuees have asked. Houston Mayor Bill White complained FEMA wasn’t bringing ice, water and meals fast enough, while the county administrator personally took over the coordination of efforts to hand out relief supplies.
According to (total jackass) Michael Chertoff (who runs FEMA), getting mad at FEMA now is just scapegoating FEMA for what is overall a difficult situation. I say, hand to the face Mr. Chertoff. Those who watched CNN for even ten minutes knew that there was a major storm brewing a week before it actually touched ground, in my humble non-official opinion, there should have been beds, warm soup etc set up within *hours* of the storm not days.
But who am I but some innocent blogger?
As Texas Struggles, O.J. Simpson Trail Begins
12:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Justice|Media|Texas · 1 Comment
15 Sep 2008
If there’s one thing you can count on from mainstream media, it’s that it is really are incapable of covering anything remotely newsworthy or of immediate concern. Even as Mala points out that the media and public are being kept away from certain parts of Hurricane ravaged Texas and nobody seems to know what happened to the prisoners that were left to deal with the storm in prison–our trustworthy CNN is headlining O.J. Simpson’s trail. And the really sad thing is that even CNN admits Simpson’s trail may not be quite newsworthy, the headline of the story: O.J. Simpson arrives for ‘bad sequel’ robbery trial.
CNN, a question for you–if it’s a bad sequel, why are you showing it?? Most stations *cancel* those bad sequels rather than continually rebroadcasting them!
While we have been focusing on how readers can help Caribbean victims of the hurricanes, close to home, in Texas specifically, the impact on areas like Bolivar and Galveston, is being hidden from the public eye, with more questions than answers, and with a community and country on edge fearing another Katrina like scenario.
XicanoPower, who faced the storm in Texas, is telling us that no one is being allowed in. What happened to the over 1000 prisoners that were left stranded in jail? While reports say that all is well inside, no one has actually been inside.
We are seeking information as to the demographics of these areas as well? Who are these most affected populations?
Hurricane Season : Porque no Se Van?
8:04 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|New Orleans|Texas · Comments Off
11 Sep 2008As Hurricanes move from their devastation in the Caribbean and into the United States, images of people boarding up homes, gathering personal belongings and evacuating, but what of those not evacuating, out of fear, out of having to place to evacuate to? Porque no se van?
It is clearly about more than just getting people out, as la Macha wrote, it is also about how people are taken care of. This includes the messages being sent out, like ICE saying that they were not going to be checking evacuees legal status while ICE raids occur in other parts of the country. So is it any wonder that immigrants are not evacuating?
XP, our once guest editor here, is in the hurricane’s path as I write this. He has some good insight and stats as to the evacuation situation as it pertains to immigrants so read it and keep him and all awaiting the storm in your thoughts.
Ike’s Unwated Visit to Caribbean
10:01 am By Maegan La Mala · Cuba|Dominican Republic|Haiti|Weather · 1 Comment
8 Sep 2008
Hurricane Ike plows it’s way through the Caribbean today, with Havana, the capital of Cuba in it’s path.
Ike already went through Haiti and the Dominican Republic as a category 3 hurricane, killing at least 58 people in Haiti alone and one reported death in the Dominican Republic. Ike has since been downgraded to a category 2 storm, with 105 mile-per-hour winds.
Haiti has been hit particularly hard, with a death toll of at least 319 people from an unrelenting four storms in a row.
”With the others we lost houses, we lost animals and we lost plantations. Never bodies,” said Lisemene Ferry Raphael, 46, standing across from her dead 12-year-old god daughter.
There are bodies on almost every other corner inside the town, where two rivers and the torrential rain of Ike swallowed houses and swept children and old women downstream, according to The Miami Herald, which has the only international reporter at the town along Route 1 on the road to the city Gonaives.
Franzt Samedi’s 5-year-old adopted daughter, Tamesha Jean, was among the dead.
”I’m the one who she calls Papa. I’m the one who is responsible for her. If she were with me she would not have died,” Samedi said.
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