Texas will be bidding adieu to some evacuees. With Rita coming, they are being moved to Arkansas.
It's not a problem for Ft. Chaffee --it's seen much larger crowds.
I feel sorry for the children involved in all this. The adults, I don't know what to say. They're grown people and need to take control of their lives:
Many of the evacuees were not happy about leaving for Arkansas and were looking for somewhere else to go.
"Hell. It's been pure hell," said Lisa Banks, 33, who was outside Reliant Arena with her four children, ages 8 to 15. "I'm not going to Arkansas. I feel like a rag doll, people throwing me around."
Seated on chair, she kept a black plastic garbage bag nearby. It was filled with towels. Banks, who was airlifted with her family out of their home in New Orleans, had hoped to settle in Houston, find a job and a place to live.
I don't know what's going to happen next," she said. "We really don't know what to do. We were supposed to get housing here."
Arkansas?
"No," she said adamantly. "Arkansas is not a good place for me."
UPDATE
What it might be like if Houston suffered a hit.
OFF TOPIC: I was raised in a nice big Southern Baptist Church in Fort Smith. When I was little (five or six), me and another kid caused some trouble in Sunday school, so they had to split us up.
I got sent to the class with the Vietnamese and Laotian kids (children of the refugees), and stayed with them all the way through junior high. I preferred it that way, too. All we did was sit around talking about video games, and how to speak their languages.
It's funny that all I can remember are the cuss words. :D
ON TOPIC: Here's praying that everyone can make it out of there in one piece.
Posted by: ArklahomBoy at September 21, 2005 07:50 PMWhat were y'all doing talking about video games in sunnyskoo?
Posted by: Donnah at September 21, 2005 10:50 PMGood question...lol.
Posted by: ArklahomBoy at September 22, 2005 08:56 PM