A new city in Houston, Texas, with a population of 15,000.
Not the best address in America.
They gave it their own ZIP code, 77230-
But it has brought some benefits to local residents.
It is almost clean, more or less safe and completely dry.
These people are no longer attached to the roof of the house above the rotating waters, nor are they squatting on elevated roads in the sun, not sure if they will live or die.
Happily, they are no longer retreating in the New Orleans Superdome, a place that is crazy for murder, rape, suicide, abortion and ammonia smoke from human waste.
Or be kept in the conference center without food and water, with the body.
These two shelters have become hell.
This hole is unthinkable in the United States.
Until last week.
There is no doubt that the newcomers to the space dome are one of the blessings of New Orleans.
But most of them are far from the end of their ordeal.
They have a blank, dull expression on their faces of those who have a mental breakdown.
There is another pain for thousands of people: relatives are missing.
Some disappeared during the chaotic bus transfer from New Orleans to here.
They may be found. eventually.
No one else has been seen or heard since the first hour of the storm.
Gabriel 40. think about it.
The number of people whose family is missing is five, she said.
"I don't know where my mom and dad are. I have three children missing.
"There are two other children with her.
Benson MS was calm about the missing child.
They survived the storm and stayed with her in the New Orleans Superdome last week.
They got lost in the chaos of getting on the bus.
Most likely, they are now in different cities.
The chaos of the bus made Benson MS very angry.
She and her family gave up their home on the project last Sunday and immediately fled to the Superdome.
The bus stampede began on Thursday.
She described the barking orders of the National Guard soldiers.
She said: "Make a hole and make a hole. this is their favorite order . "
Don't try to keep parents and children together.
"They treat us like dirt.
They won't even help my kids when they get lost.
They only say, "You have to stay behind the barricade, madam . ".
"The soldiers gave them at least water while they were waiting --
Throw bottles into the crowd
"Just fight people on their heads with them.
"But if getting on the bus is difficult, the previous situation is much worse for many of these evacuees.
Thousands of people have never been to the Superdome or convention center.
Now some people say they are happy, like Ruby Taylor.
MS Taylor was not a robber, but the robbery helped her keep her life.
She is tall and proud, 62 years old.
She had a red cross dinner here on Saturday with rice, beans and beef steak, and she described her first escape --
On Monday, when the water had risen to her shoulder, she waded into the local school.
"We were lucky because we had the school kitchen, so we got all the food they robbed and cooked," she recalled with a smile . ".
Surrounded by water, she was eventually forced into the third floor of the school, and she and others watched with frustration that their SOS signal was ignored by a helicopter hovering for two days.
"I know they saw our logo," she said . "
"I know they did.
"Finally, on Wednesday, the boats arrived and they were taken to the interstate west of the city.
They stay there.
No food and shelter
30 hours until the first bus arrives.
A lot of people describe similar open-air despair here.
On the elevated highway, under the bridge, even in the mosquitoes
The fields that haunt
Before the bus arrives
For a few days, many people have jumped from place to place and fled the water --
From their own home, to the home of friends who are still above the water level, to the roof, to the elevated roads around the city.
Some, like Linda bertonier, hold on to the lamppost in order to live.
Others had to jump from the roof to the roof.
However, this is testimony from those who did what was told and responded to the government's call for asylum in the New Orleans Superdome and convention center, who are now coming out, here and other evacuation shelters, stories about poverty and danger are almost too scary to understand.
11-year-old Devan Allen.
Here he and his dad approached carefully and told him what he saw in the Superdome.
This is something that no child should witness.
Like Tuesday.
Or Wednesday?
For everyone here, the days are blurred.
When a man stands on the balcony screaming so that everyone can hear him losing everyone in the storm, now he will die too.
He plunged into the sports ground below and his head opened at once.
This should not be seen by Devan.
He should not have heard the gunshots either.
And there were no whispers of the girls who were raped and stabbed to death, just with him in the Superdome.
Or the boy who was raped.
"I'm scared," said Devin.
"I know there was a rape and they said they were the ones who robbed the boys.
He recalled the suicide: "He jumped down like this . "
"Like many adults, he also remembers the pain of getting on the bus.
"This is a big old crowd.
Terrible.
"James Allen, his father, is one of those angry at what they found when they fled to the Superdome.
"We went there because we thought we would be safe, but we were more like prisoners than anything else.
James, 31, was born in New Orleans.
He said he would never return to the city after something like this happened to the Superdome.
"I can't go back there after we 've gone through this.
"He said that by last night, the soldiers of the National Guard even gave up patrolling in the arena to give in to their ugliness and anarchy.
The story details from inside the Superdome are slightly different depending on who is telling them.
The accuracy of some details is not yet proven.
This will be one of the factors behind the mistakes in the rescue effort and the subject of an official investigation.
But 56-year-old Gail Farrell has worked at Whitney National Bank in New Orleans for 27 years.
Her husband survived the storm on the outskirts of New Orleans.
She said she was sure what she had seen and heard.
If an official investigation into the events in the arena is conducted, MS Farrell may testify.
"You don't want to know what that looks like.
We have Kills, abortions, babies born, toilets piled up, hot.
"She did not hesitate on the details.
She mentioned that two girls were raped and murdered in the dome, and one was a seven-year-old girl.
She said the other was 16 years old and was "cut" by a knife after she was raped in the women's bathroom ".
Much of what she tells is also described similarly by several other dome evacuees.
A seven-year-old boy was also raped by two men. (
Mr. Allen said the rapists were pursued and beaten by others before being handed over to soldiers.
He claimed that they also beat him and then threw him from the terrace outside the Superdome onto the asphalt and killed him. )
"There are babies born and put into garbage," MS Farrell continued . ".
Apparently someone else found a living baby and took it to The Little Clinic inside them.
Almost everyone is talking about the shooting at night, including the shooting of a National Guard soldier.
MS Farrell said the soldier was killed and others said he survived a leg injury.
Meanwhile, she added that a black man
In the view of the authorities, the market trade in cannabis, crack cocaine, firearms and alcohol is very active.
Men show off their penis to women, and women only dare to go to the bathroom in groups of five.
When the bathrooms get so bad that they can't get into them, people start to squat and relax themselves anywhere.
"Humans don't live that way, people on the street don't live that way," she said . ".
Throughout the weekend, federal officials will interview the heads of each family group at astrodolme, give them money and provide some guidance on what to do next.
Other evacuation centers in Houston and several other cities in Texas, including Dallas and San Antonio, and other Southern states, are also in the process.
Everyone wants as many people as possible to find alternative accommodation, perhaps in a cheap apartment or living with relatives in Texas.
Some will eventually stay in Texas and others will eventually return to the state of Luis Anna.
Yesterday, announcements occasionally appeared on speakers or electronic message boards that used to bring good news about sports for some friends or family members.
But it's not easy for most souls here.
Many of them have been exhausted, apparently scarred by the experience of the days after Hurricane Katrina.
"I can't move," Benson MS said straight . ".
"This will be my home.
Home for me and my kids.
"She just prayed first that she could find the three missing children and bring them here.
The sound from the storm "we have no place to go.
"Julie Paul, 57, watched New Orleans empty in a poor area last Sunday.
The water went up fast.
I got a hammer, an axe and a crowbar, but I insisted on breaking through the roof until the last minute.
Please tell someone to pick me up. I want to live.
Chris Robinson called from New Orleans on Monday.
"There are many houses worth millions of dollars.
At least it was yesterday.
"Fred Wright, look into the east coast of Mobile", I don't treat my dog that way.
I buried the dog.
You can do anything for other countries, but you can't do anything for your own people.
You can go abroad with the army, but you can't bring them here.
Daniel Edwards pointed to a dead woman parked in a wheelchair outside the convention center.
"I do think that if they were white seniors and white babies who actually died on the street, were covered with newspapers and birthday clothes, and were left there, the country would react differently.
Anti-David Billings
Racist organization of the People's Institute.
"I don't want to see any more water unless I take a shower.
Anona Freeman before the air broadcastlifted out.