Continue to pray in your own way and your own words, that all those immediately involved can be sustained with energy, clarity of thought and love.In our area, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Northern Mississippi and northwest Louisiana, we are working every minute of every day to identify inventories of houses, apartments, single and multi-family housing units, mobile home parks with vacant slabs, vacant hotels, closed military base barracks, hospitals, etc., that can be immediately made available for what may grow to be 600-800,000 people who cannot go home.I am confident that you will be called on as well to begin determining inventory such as these if you have not already started doing so. In addition to existing housing units, we have been asked to identify commercial buildings that are vacant–i.e., Wal Mart, strip malls, other huge buildings–that can be converted into housing units inside and the parking lots used for mobile homes, motor homes for temporary shelters.Join us in thinking “outside the box” for any and all options where massive numbers of people can be relocated. We also have been asked by FEMA to identify parcels of land adjacent to water/sewage connections if possible (but not even required), where 200-400 mobile home slabs could be placed and housing made available quickly. Do not limit how you allow your ideas to develop, for if we do, we will not have enough places people can call home.In our three states, I believe it is safe to say we do not see these days as challenges, but we see them as once in a lifetime opportunities.
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War-zone
This blog is incredible. Thanks to QandO for the find.Read the following – this is coming an American city.Bravo Team becomes functional this morning, we’re going to do a Medium Range Recon Patrol around our section of the CBD. We need to access the area for potential human threats, situational threats (burning buildings, etc.), flooding, potential evac routes, military and civilian authority presence, etc.Rebuild?… Resettling 1.5 million+ people is going to change our country in ways we simply do not comprehend.
Hurricane Katrina
The effects of this tragedy on the real estate market and the economy are currently incomprehensible…. From InstaPundit – Lefty blogger Skippy has donated, and is issuing a challenge to bloggers left and right. “this is not about red states v. blue states…this is not about left v. right…this is not about liberal v. conservative…… and americans have historically always rolled up their sleeves and pitched in to help out their fellow countrymen in need.”It’s a shame that is has to be said, but we are truly all in this together.
Hurricane Katrina
While a variety of government and private agencies are en route to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, federal officials said people wanting to help shouldn’t head to the affected area unless directed by an agency.Instead, Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, urged people to make contributions to organizations. FEMA listed the following agencies as needing cash to assist hurricane victims:• American Red Cross, 800-HELP NOW, 800-435-7669 • Operation Blessing, 800-436-6348 • America’s Second Harvest, 800-344-8070 • Adventist Community Services, 800-381-7171 • Catholic Charities, 703-549-1390 • Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, 800-848-5818 • Church World Service, 800-297-1516 • Convoy of Hope, 417-823-8998 • Episcopal Relief & Development, 1-800-334-7626 or • Lutheran Disaster Response, 800-638-3522 • Mennonite Disaster Service, 717-859-2210 • Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, 800-872-3283 • Salvation Army, 800-SAL-ARMY (725-2769) • Southern Baptist Convention Disaster Relief, 800-462-8657, ext. 6440 • United Methodist Committee on Relief, 800-554-8583 Copied entirely from the Wall Street Journal’s special coverage page. I hope they don’t mind.
Bloggers summit/code of ethics
Bloggers’ legal responsibilitiesTechnology has always has the edge over regulations and laws…. This is similar to the honor code at my alma mater, VMI, except for one key component in VMI’s – nor tolerate those who do…. Those bloggers who make it a habit of posting libelous or slanderous posts will make names for themselves and respectable bloggers will take note…. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
False advertising
Throughout the day on WINA, I hear commercials stating the splendors of Old Trail Village, with townhouse prices starting at $175,000 and single family homes from $300,000 up to one million. Ha. They might have been $175 before they hit the market, but certainly not now.