Katrina survivors promised help in San Francisco still waiting.

I met my neighbor Tyra yesterday and she told me this story. Her situation is still unresolved. And we are about to re-elect the Mayor that asked Katrina survivors to come here and then, when the cameras were gone, left them to their own devices.

S.F. Hosing Authority

City government promised Katrina victims a haven, then it gave some of them the shaft
By Matt Smith
Published: October 19, 2005

Restaurant cook Tyra Huntley remembers waking up the morning after Hurricane Katrina, relieved to find the rains had stopped, the strong winds were dying down, and her children -- Tashara, John, Dewayne, and Whitney -- had enjoyed a fair night's sleep.

By afternoon, however, water from broken levees began swallowing Huntley's home eight blocks south of the New Orleans Country Club -- a house occupied by four generations of her family.

"First it was at the steps. I'd just purchased a car. And that was soon underwater, too," Huntley recalls. "This is a two-story house. And soon that's underwater, too. Thankfully, some volunteers got us on boats."

During the next few days, Huntley and her children made their way west. Huntley suffered a brief panic when she was separated for a short time from one of her children. Police in a small town on the way to Baton Rouge chased them away with guns, she says. Between Baton Rouge and Houston, Huntley and her children reunited serendipitously with her brother and his family, and in Mamou, La., the nine of them boarded a bus for San Francisco.

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