Any Port In A Storm

Foreclosed homes could become hurricane shelters

"MIAMI – Trying to make the best of a bad situation, federal officials might use foreclosed homes as temporary housing for hurricane evacuees in Florida as soon as this summer.
The proposal would keep people close to their homes and communities instead of scattering them around the country, which happened when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans nearly four years ago. Thousands never returned.
But the idea is still in its infancy and many questions remain unanswered, including whether the banks that own the foreclosed homes would agree to such a plan.
"It makes all the sense in the world," said Jack McCabe, a South Florida real estate analyst, who has watched tens of thousands of homes go into foreclosure. "We have a lot of vacant units available."

There's so much wrong with this it's hard to know where to begin. The government has become a giant, bloated Frankenstein's monster, a stupid "Of Mice and Men" Lennie who crushes small animals and carries them around in his pocket, a loud, brainless, drunken Russian sailor on permanent taxpayer funded shore leave.