I just returned this evening from Houston. I was invited down by Houston Baptist University to survey the damage to their campus from Hurricane Ike.
On the way back to Denver I was reading last week’s The Economist and ran across an article about the effects of Hurricane Ike on Cuba. 200,000 homeless. And the Castro government will not accept U.S. offers of aid.
200,000 homeless.
The Economist, Hurricane Ike in Cuba
I’m reminded that we still do not have a catastrophic disaster housing plan in the United States. I tried to start that planning process in 2004, saw Homeland Security cut the funds for that planning in 2005 (just prior to Hurricane Katrina, ironically), and know that even today, the U.S. Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee still cannot get answers from DHS/FEMA on their catastrophic disaster housing plan.
Will we ever learn?
You can read about the effects of Hurricane Ike on Cuba here and the continuing controversy over the trade embargo with Cuba.
