Monday, September 01, 2008

An Eyewitness Story of Evacuation

Via ProfBW

This is the first step of displacement. Those with cars drive away. Those without walk to a community center with their children and wait for a bus. The first of many buses they will take in their journey to who knows where. The bus that people are waiting for will take them to the train station where people will get off the bus, be entered into computers, be given bar code bracelets, and then put on other buses for a trip to public shelters in places like Shreveport, Alexandria and Memphis.

New Orleans expects 30,000 people need help evacuating.

Many waiting for this bus were in the Superdome when Katrina hit. . .

Read the whole entry here.


And more resources!

More Resources Straight from the WIKI (see my other posts below as well, esp. Incite! plea)

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