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I haven't actually been watching much of this on the news, but last night I saw a bit.

One family was on and was happy to have been moved from NOLA to Houston, they said that since they came to Houston they had food, cloths, a roof, and a shower. This family repeatedly said "thank you Houston". 2 min later they had some other woman on who had been moved to houston. She said she hadn't gotten food, a bath, cloths, and was standing in line. She was pissed because she hadn't been helped.

Too many people are unrealistic in their thoughts of how this sort of thing can/does proceed. Too many people prefer to ***** and be pessimistic.

Crap, 30,000 people being moved from NOLA to Houston needing food, clothing, showers, etc... That's not something that is generally planned for and is a huge ugly logistics nightmare. Not to mention that the priority is not the people who are walking and talking and *****ing, but are the people in need of medical care.

This sucks, people are working as hard as they can. Sheesh.

On a brighter note, the morning show from one of our stations here in Houston has been on the air (same 3 people) for about 48 hours straight. They've been doing "pay for play". You donate and they'll pay any song you want (Don Ho "Tiny Bubbles" was played). In the last 48 hours they've made over $300,000 and they are still going strong. Most of that money is from donations <$1000. All of the money is going to the Red Cross.