To see where your state figures in the rescue area please check below...

Texas by far has been the most open and protective of these neighboring
residents, not only offering a temporary shelter but permanence, and breaking
all rules for school admissions (which can create a health hazard) as well.

From a professional viewpoint, most of these poor and poverty stricken are
a plague of Louisiana and have been for many years now. The state does little
to prevent them from sleeping about anywhere, and Medicaid is poorly alocated
for these state refugees within a state.

This is not a black and white issue although folks from Louisiana will
find a
different culture here.

1. Very powerful legal ramifications for breaking laws which are not
considered felonies in Louisiana.
2. Help beyond help; many of the poverty stricken do not know what
AC is much less, medical care and treatment. Texas has some
of the finest medical and teaching hospitals in the WORLD and
in some cases will initially treat disorders NOT treated already to
the poverty stricken from Louisiana.
3. Children's welfare at stake. Immediate help for children has been
given from schooling, to clothing, and mental and emotional care.
Sad to say some women from New Orleans have rolled into Texas
with up to 10 children, relinquishing them to FOSTER care. This
in Texas (for they are now under our legislature and rules) can
have
widespread outcomes; I caution anyone against giving up their
children. We will provide for FAMILIES unlike Louisiana; keep your
children with you.

As previously stated I am a legal resident of both states, a professional
nurse,
advocate, and one who currently just discharged from the hospital with
hypokalemia,
renal failure, and suffer with life and death NIP. I run two pain support
groups (linked
below); one of which is an open group and we handle support, and do pain chats
nightly. That includes mental pain not just physical.

What has been stated is an unfortunate truth; America just signed off over
10 billion dollars in aid not in rebuilding or long term outcomes, and this
could have
been avoided had the state of Louisiana done what they were told to do for
many
years. They knew the deterioration of land, and yet ignored this important
facet.
In short they land levels were 4 to 20 feet lower than meterologists were
aware of
when forecasting devestation with a Class V hurricane hitting New Orleans dead
center.

Furthermore, the U.S. government experts have warned of this, meaning
they are a hurricane "hit" by location, and their levees were NOT even fit at
normal land default much less actual deterioration to handle a Level 3
hurricane.
Local and state officials failed to provide FEMA and the President with actual
poverty numbers housed in unsafe places, and what has occurred is costing
every American present here on the net today. This is not the fault of our
President (Bush declared the state a disaster before the hurricane hit), and
the
efforts of our own Governor Perry are without a doubt the greatest outpouring
of National and State leadership that will grace the history books in years
to come.

It is my hope that we continue to truly assess the real and not imagined
damage
for it is not in gorry news stories and pictures but in the REAL PROOF that
this
state defied all odds and refused to provide in a common occurrence that could
and did strike with such velocity, force, and damage as to not only destroy
lives
but create the new question "why salvage and just allow the levees to open and
clear the area to become merely a port in years to come" meaning after lives
are
saved, the rescue workers and military are safely out, and the rest of the
state is
either assimilated by neighboring states (for it is the neighboring states
that are
bearing the brunt of this disaster), and sanctions imposed to the Governor on
down
(with Senate hearings) to proclaim the true nature of "why the damage
occurred."
The damage occurred after Katrina ended, and the levees faulted.

Peace and God's blessings,

Karen G.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050904074409990002
Updated: 12:40 PM EDT
Katrina Refugees Spread Across United States
Snapshots of States Taking In Refugees From Hurricane Katrina
TEXAS: Gov. Rick Perry says more than 120,000 refugees were in 97 shelters
across the state, with another 100,000 in Texas hotels and motels. Hundreds more
- no one knows just how many - were housed in churches or private homes.
LOUISIANA: The Red Cross says more than 50,000 refugees were in its shelters.
The Superdome has been evacuated and tens of thousands of others have been
bused to Texas.
ARKANSAS: Gov. Mike Huckabee says Arkansas likely had 50,000 evacuees in the
state as of Friday and that another 20,000 could be expected.
TENNESSEE: Gov. Phil Bredesen says nearly 13,000 refugees were being
sheltered and that number could double within several days. More than 10,000
people
have gone to Memphis, about 350 miles north of New Orleans.
MISSISSIPPI: The state Emergency Management Agency says 12,500 people were in
public shelters. Figures were not available for people in hotels or private
homes, but officials say the total number could climb into the tens of
thousands. A shelter in Biloxi was closed because more than 20 people there fell
ill,
and doctors believe the patients may have contracted dysentery from tainted
water.
ALABAMA: Gov. Bob Riley is seeking to create temporary, semi-permanent and
permanent housing for 10,000 refugees, but emergency officials say the number of
hurricane victims in Alabama was likely to climb far higher.
MICHIGAN: The state has offered to house up to 10,000 refugees, a spokeswoman
for Gov. Jennifer Granholm says.
SOUTH CAROLINA: U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn proposed housing up to 5,000 refugees
in unused military barracks, an empty mall and other large buildings in
Columbia. So far, Red Cross chapters across the state reported helping a handful
of
refugees, although most have been staying with family or friends.
MINNESOTA: Gov. Tim Pawlenty says Minnesota is preparing to host as many as
5,000 evacuees for a year or longer.
OKLAHOMA: A caravan of about buses carrying nearly 2,000 evacuees from the
storm-ravaged Gulf Coast region crossed into Oklahoma on Saturday en route to an
Oklahoma National Guard barracks. Preparations are being made to house as
many as 3,000 additional evacuees at a second site.
FLORIDA: More than 1,100 people were in seven shelters, along with 13,500
refugees in hotels, according to officials in Pensacola, Panama City and
Tallahassee.
ARIZONA: One thousand or more refugees were expected to arrive in Arizona
sometime Sunday.
COLORADO: Officials say up to 1,000 refugees will be housed at dorms at the
former Lowry Air Force base.
GEORGIA: Working with aid groups, state officials have opened 12 shelters
housing more than 900 evacuees, Gov. Sonny Perdue says.
MISSOURI: The American Red Cross has housed more than 500 people, says Susie
Stonner, a spokeswoman for the State Emergency Management agency.
WEST VIRGINIA: The first of an expected 500 refugees began arriving late
Saturday.
ILLINOIS: Authorities were aware of 400 to 500 refugees in the state. The
state Board of Education says 35 Katrina refugees were enrolling in Illinois
schools.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Ten buses were expected to roll out of Washington for New
Orleans to pick up 400 hurricane refugees. Officials expected they would return
on Labor Day. Refugees were to be housed at the D.C. Armory.
UTAH: About 150 refugees arrived Saturday night on a chartered Jet Blue
airliner out of New Orleans. Three additional planes from the storm-ravaged Gulf
Coast were expected late Saturday or Sunday, bringing the expected total number
of refugees to about 300.
MARYLAND: A spokesman for the Maryland State Department of Education says at
least seven counties have been contacted by refugees who want to enroll
students. Some school systems also have inquired about hiring displaced
teachers.
09/04/05 07:41 EDT
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Published Psychiatric Researcher
Advocate for those in CIP, HIV, Psychologic Pain

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