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Welcome to Texas, Katrina victims

I was watching the news the other evening, and Dale Hensen, sports anchor for WFAA, summed things up well:

“There are evenings when I feel like an idiot sitting up here and talking about sports.”

Many displaced Louisiana citizens are becoming Texas. I hope they find our neck of the woods friendly and accomodating. Yeah, the weather sucks, but you get used to that.

There are, of course, a lot of logistical issues with adding 75,000 people to your population overnight. Every little item becomes magnified 75,000 fold. A little thing that in the grand scheme things isn’t significant, but will happen in school districts across the state:

A kid from Texas School District X has been involved in football / soccer / theater / baseball / chess / whatever for his entire school life. He’s a senior and is finally a starting tailback, for instance. A kid from Louisiana School District X has been involved in football / soccer / theater / baseball / chess / whatever for his entire school life. He’s a senior and was finally a starting tailback, for instance. Suddenly, these two kids are in the same school district. Do you tell the kid that’s lived there his whole life that he’s suddenly been relegated to #2? Or do you tell the kid who’s lost everything, and maybe that activity is all he has left, that he’s a #2 now?

Neither scenario seems fair. But it will happen. I just hope everyone gets treated fairly and with respect.

The Dallas Morning news has compiled a list of ways for North Texans to help. Dallasites should give it a visit.

Sun September 4th, 2005 9:16 pm

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3 comments

  1. Stephan Segraves said:
    September 8th, 2005 7:33 pm

    Strangely, we have 400 of the evacuees here in Lubbock. They are housing them at what used to be Reese Air Force Base and I’ve been out there volunteering with the Red Cross. The folks seem to be in good spirits and for some reason they are really surprised at the people in Texas and our attitudes.

  2. Mallory said:
    September 8th, 2005 11:17 pm

    You know, something tells me our weather won’t faze them one bit.

  3. Andrew said:
    September 8th, 2005 11:35 pm

    I take pride in Texas being considered a hospitable state. I hope we’re all being hospitable. On my way to work today, right outside of downtown, a car with Louisiana plates cut me off once to get into an exit lane, then cut me off again when they got out of the exit lane at the last second. I figured they were probably lost, though, so I didn’t give the finger or even honk. See how hospitable we Texans can be? I actually would have been happy to give them some directions, if there were a way to have car-to-car communication. Someone work on that, make that happen.

    Mal: you’re probably right… especially since it’s finally starting to cool off around here. Highs only in the low to mid 90s!

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