The after-effects of a disaster

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Mentioned on another thread yday how 3 Carnival cruise ships had been chartered by the US Givt to provide temporary accommodation and decent shelter, food, etc. Seems that the company and comradery that places like the Superdome generate are preferred. Goes to show what is more important to the humans suffering - a sense of identity and purpose leads over better conditions:

Survivors spurn cruise ship plan
JOBS and money - not cruise ship berths - are what Hurricane Katrina survivors want as many spurn federal government efforts to relocate them once again to three vessels chartered from Carnival Cruise Lines and one from Scotia Prince Cruises. The Federal Emergency Management Agency had hoped to move 7,000 people from shelters to provide them with beds, private rooms and hot food aboard the vessels Ecstasy, Holiday, Sensation and Scotia Prince. But takers for the plan are few as many refugees want to get back to work and others are hesitant to go anywhere near a ship on the water after escaping New Orleans' floods. Nearly 26,000 evacuees at Houston's Astrodome, Reliant Center, Reliant Arena and convention centre were talking about the proposal yesterday, Coast Guard sources tell Fairplay. "Many feel the first certainty in their lives since before the storm," one officer said of the cots stretched across the dome's athletic fields. The mantra "the dome is home" has been heard from many, he said