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"laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE" |
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02 Sep 2005 02:57:58 PM |
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N.O. hotels hire buses to move their guests - Feds commandeer buses |
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/02/tourists_say_they_were_an_afterthought/
Tourists say they were an afterthought
September 2, 2005
NEW ORLEANS -- Managers at two French Quarter hotels teamed up to hire
10 buses to carry their 500 guests to safer ground, but federal
officials commandeered the vehicles and told the guests to go to the
convention center with other evacuees, one of the managers said.
''We kept hearing they were coming, they were coming," said guest
Bill Hedrick, a Houston oilman who was with family, including his
mother-in-law, who uses a walker.
He said he and the others had paid $45 a seat. When the crowd learned
the buses would never arrive, ''everyone was totally stunned," Hedrick
said.
Hedrick, who had moved to the New Orleans Convention Center along with
Ambros and many of the other guests, had harsh words yesterday for
city officials, who he said were focused on helping residents. ''The
tourists here are an afterthought," he said.
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| User: "Brad Wilson" |
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| Title: Re: N.O. hotels hire buses to move their guests - Feds commandeer buses |
02 Sep 2005 04:29:05 PM |
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On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:57:58 GMT, laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE
<xeton2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/02/tourists_say_they_were_an_afterthought/
Tourists say they were an afterthought
September 2, 2005
NEW ORLEANS -- Managers at two French Quarter hotels teamed up to hire
10 buses to carry their 500 guests to safer ground, but federal
officials commandeered the vehicles and told the guests to go to the
convention center with other evacuees, one of the managers said.
''We kept hearing they were coming, they were coming," said guest
Bill Hedrick, a Houston oilman who was with family, including his
mother-in-law, who uses a walker.
He said he and the others had paid $45 a seat. When the crowd learned
the buses would never arrive, ''everyone was totally stunned," Hedrick
said.
Hedrick, who had moved to the New Orleans Convention Center along with
Ambros and many of the other guests, had harsh words yesterday for
city officials, who he said were focused on helping residents. ''The
tourists here are an afterthought," he said.
This will keep tourists out of the US for years to come.
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