These particular trailers were parked at the airport within months of the hurricane and to this day are still there. A homeland security spending bill was approved this past September 29 that has “a provision allowing FEMA to sell or donate the trailers to municipalities, nonprofit groups or American Indian tribes.”
If you are curious as to why our government did not use the trailers for their intended purpose then look no further than ridiculousness:
FEMA officials said that regulations against placing the homes in flood plains prevented their use on the Gulf Coast.
Does this reason make any sense to you? If there is a rule against putting homes in flood plains then why not put the trailer homes in non-flood plains? There is an entire country to choose from with plenty of open areas to put these much needed trailers. Because of FEMA and other government officials over ten thousand people had to remain homeless.Congressman Mike Ross of Arkansas sponsored the measures and commented on the new found use for the trailers, “I am proud that the 9,778 fully furnished manufactured homes sitting in Hope, Arkansas, may finally be put to good use. These are the kind of commonsense solutions the American taxpayers expect and deserve.”
Commonsense solutions? Didn’t commonsense go out the window each day, week, month and now year that went by and those trailers were not given to victims of Hurricane Katrina? I truly am at a loss as to why our current government can’t do the right thing during even the most critical points in the history of this country?
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