Comments on: Ike Holdouts Will Be Forced From Home

Residents On Bolivar Peninsula Must Leave So Crews Can Begin Recovery Effort, Officials Say

[gop_will_win]

Liberals want to force them from their land! Stop the liberals!

[yongamerica]

Because many residents who stayed had no better place to escape than a gym crowed with hundreds if not thousands of other refugees decided living in wreckage was a better quality of life doesn''t make them ignorant of the dangers they faced. Now the storm is over, FEMA should be stepping in already and supplying temporary homes for those who have lost theirs and have no where else to go.

[anitaymoore]

("A couple of the residents who rode out the storm told CBS News")

Those people in Galveston who stayed regardless just **** me off!!! I''m sorry but I have NO PITY for these people who were told to leave or face almost certain death and chose to stay anyway. It''s not as if they weren''t given adequate warning, it''s not as if they weren''t provided with transportation out with areas to go to, and it''s not as if they weren''t told HOW severe this storm was going to be. The words "CERTAIN DEATH" are pretty damned clear.

They CHOSE to stay regardless, they should simply be glad to be alive...able to eat leftover pizza and uncooked hot dogs. They CHOSE to stay, knowing a catastrophic hurricane was on the way...and now they have the nerve to whine about a rescue helicopter not coming to save them!? As I recall prior to the storm residents of Galveston were told not to expect to be saved (I do remember a story on that, it was on the news...in the papers, on the internet etc.) The recovery/rescue efforts need to be concentrated on getting people back into their homes as quickly as possible, rebuilding, restoring electricity, providing food/water and supplies for areas who were not told to evacuate, for the people who DID evacuate and do as they were told...not taking care of selfish people who were warned ahead of time, very clearly...and who chose to ignore the warnings.

[lewiston14]

%u201CLet them stay and help in the recovery!!!!!!!!!!! ------

Posted by Bob5ford at 08:57 AM : Sep 17, 2008

Help how this has gone way above a few chain saws they are using bull dozers the size of houses to push everything out of the way.

[bozworth4]

The people who are driving the forced evacuation are ***local*** authorities. The County Judge, Yarbrough, is a Democrat, not one of "Dubya''''s people". President Bush is urging residents to listen to local authorities - you think that''''s a bad thing?
Another example of BDR - Bush Derangement Syndrome.


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Posted by oldone60

I''m from the gov. I''m here to help you. LOL. The new world order is just around the corner! Be ready. No democrats or Republicans, only politicians that would pimp their mother for a euro, yen or dollar.

[lewiston14]

%u201CIs the local government going to be responsible for these peoples valuables and homesteads and safeguard them? %u201C

Bob your being to optimistic. When a rescue team come and gets you your old high school photos are the last thing on their minds. Consider them dust in the wind. They want to come home alive to. Valuables? Most that had any were long gone. I don%u2019t think they are going to put a six pack of beer or a bottle of jack in an armored car waiting for a person to return. Given the temptures and water im sure the bugs are as big as small WW2 bombers by now.

[tootall10142]

You are forced to leave your home without a court order when the water rises and turns your *walls into a electric avenue for fire.

[slim1h2o]

Let them stay and help in the recovery!!!!!!!!!!!


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Posted by Bob5ford at 08:57 AM : Sep 17, 2008


I agree, and if they''re concerned with sanitation issues, they can always bring in port-a-pottys''.

But eitherway, if they survived the storm, they ceratinly can survive the aftermath.

[lewiston14]

The good news is that transportation required will be given free of charge to somewhere else until they figure out how to turn things like electric, gas, water ,sewer back on. That stuff was damaged and it will take time to fix. You may not like the menu but its better then nothing.

[bob5ford]

Is the local government going to be responsible for these peoples valuables and homesteads and safeguard them? Or will they come back to find them looted? Let them stay and help in the recovery!!!!!!!!!!!