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Katrina refugees head to Houston
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Aug 31, 2005 04:35pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- At least 25,000 of Hurricane Katrina's refugees, a majority of them at the New Orleans Superdome, will travel in a bus convoy to Houston and will be sheltered at the Astrodome, which hasn't been used for professional sporting events in years.
Evacuees with special problems already have been evacuated to hospitals in other Louisiana cities, but the 23,000 people now confined to the stuffy, smelly Superdome, as well as some other refugees will go to Houston, about 350 miles away.
The marathon bus convoy should take two days, officials said.
"Our view is the move to the Astrodome is temporary," said William Lokey, chief coordinator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "We're buying time until we can figure something out." |
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