While President Bush promises to “help in any way we can” Kansans displaced by a tornado, Hurricane Katrina survivors are still twisting in the wind.
In September 2005, Bush promised:
The people who call it home need to have reassurance that their lives will be safer in the years to come. Protecting a city that sits lower than the water around it is not easy, but it can, and has been done. City and parish officials in New Orleans, and state officials in Louisiana will have a large part in the engineering decisions to come. And the Army Corps of Engineers will work at their side to make the flood protection system stronger than it has ever been (emphasis added).
With hurricane season less than a month away, the levees still may not hold water (and here).
And when it rains, it pours. The Road Home program, which was supposed to help displaced New Orleanians “get back into their home,” may run out of money.
If that happens, Katrina survivors once again will be left high and dry – and stuck in FEMA trailers.
