Hurricane Katrina: Why I Can't Stop Talking About It!

Hey all!
I wanted to share a blog entry I wrote for my MySpace page.

Hurricane Katrina: Why I Can’t Stop Talking About It

Hurricane Katrina....
I'm constantly asked why I continue talking about Hurricane Katrina. I'll tell you my reason for bringing it up again and again. I'll also tell you why YOU should think about it, discuss it, and find a way to help the survivors who are still suffering.

Remember the FEMA trailers Katrina survivors used for housing? More than 143,000 families have lived in the toxic trailers. Toxic as in, formaldehyde. Are you aware that nearly 40,000 families are still living in FEMA trailers? Are you aware that formaldehyde was used to build those trailers? If memory serves me correctly, formaldehyde is commonly called embalming fluid and is used to preserve dead bodies. In the streets, it's also used to lace marijuana, you know, FRY! FRY has been known to make people act STONE crazy, out of it, extremely violent, psycho,etc...

Please read the following excerpt taken from CBS News website. This information was broadcast across the country on most news stations this past week.

** CBS News has learned that the Centers for Disease Control, the nation's top public health agency, suppressed repeated warnings from one of its top scientists, raising questions about whether the CDC bowed to pressure from FEMA to conceal the long-term health risks of formaldehyde in the trailers it distributed to hurricane victims-health risks like cancer and birth defects, CBS investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports. A string of internal documents obtained exclusively by CBS News reveal that Dr. Christopher De Rosa, director of the CDC's Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, told his superiors "there is no safe level of exposure" to formaldehyde in trailers. That warning never made its way into any public report about the trailers.
In addition, Dr. De Rosa wrote in an email that two of his staff members had been directed by FEMA officials to not "address longer term health effects" of formaldehyde in this February 2007 report. **

Now, let me ask you how much time would you like to spend inside a FEMA trailer?

Would you want your precious children living in a trailer with formaldehyde wallpaper.

What about your elderly parents, would you let them stay in a formaldehyde laced trailer?

Think about the children, still in your womb, due anyday now, feeling them kick and punch your ribs. Soon they'll be snuggling in your arms, inside a formaldehyde laced trailer.


Hurricane Katrina? I've got to talk about it, you've got to talk about it! How long should we talk about it? Until innocent people are treated like human beings and nothing less.

Tell me, HOW LONG ARE YOU WILLING TO STAY IN ONE OF THOSE TRAILERS?