Tens of thousands of New Orleans residents are starting to get situated here in Houston. Today’s Houston Chronicle gives an overview (emphasis added):
Inside the Astrodome, Catherine Brooks sat on a cot, surrounded by her daughter, Cynthia Brooks and three of her nine grandchildren.
Antoine, 14, Don, 13 and Derrick, 11, were playing a rowdy game of Sorry.
"Y’all are going to be sorry if you don’t quiet down," Catherine Brooks admonished the boys, all too aware that other people were trying to sleep.
"The people here are so nice," she said. "I’m talking about the Houston people. Some of the people that are staying in here, well, they’re getting too wild. Like a vacation or something. … Maybe they are glad they were delivered. They’re alive."
Nalani Callico, who works for the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, brought the game when she arrived to volunteer at the Dome.
"I was in here, and I was just touched when I saw all of them together," Callico said of the family. "I don’t know what possessed me."
Brooks spoke up. "The spirit of God is what possessed you, darlin’. I call her the Angel of the Dome. All these volunteers are angels."
Sounds right to me.
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