So Far, So Good
Oct. 3rd, 2005 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkittyTwo drunks were in in a bar one day. One says to the other, "I'll bet you I can jump off that 20 story building and live."
"Naw," the other says,"You'd be dead as soon as you hit the ground. Splat!"
"I'll bet you a hunnert bucks!" So the two leave their bets with the bartender and weave their way to the top of the building, where the first drunk happily heaves himself off.
And so, the story goes, he is heard by office workers at windows on various floors as he descends exclaiming, "So far, so good....so far, so good...so far, so good..."
I was listening today to a news story about the folks down in theGulf Coast who are still waiting for housing after Katrina wiped their homes off the map. Estimates are around 300,000 people displaced, 2/3 of whom will turn to FEMA for housing. Now FEMA's main solution for temporary housing is trailers.
Yes. trailers. Given that there is practically no rental housing in the area, what can they do? Granted it is supposed to be temporary, the word is, some residents may be waiting as long as eight months for their trailers.
So, all these Gulf Coast residents should be nice and cozy, settled into their new trailers just in time for hurricane season. Think they'll have an evacuation plan for FEMA Park?
So far, so good....
"Naw," the other says,"You'd be dead as soon as you hit the ground. Splat!"
"I'll bet you a hunnert bucks!" So the two leave their bets with the bartender and weave their way to the top of the building, where the first drunk happily heaves himself off.
And so, the story goes, he is heard by office workers at windows on various floors as he descends exclaiming, "So far, so good....so far, so good...so far, so good..."
I was listening today to a news story about the folks down in theGulf Coast who are still waiting for housing after Katrina wiped their homes off the map. Estimates are around 300,000 people displaced, 2/3 of whom will turn to FEMA for housing. Now FEMA's main solution for temporary housing is trailers.
Yes. trailers. Given that there is practically no rental housing in the area, what can they do? Granted it is supposed to be temporary, the word is, some residents may be waiting as long as eight months for their trailers.
So, all these Gulf Coast residents should be nice and cozy, settled into their new trailers just in time for hurricane season. Think they'll have an evacuation plan for FEMA Park?
So far, so good....
