Buses in Houston
New Orleans evacuees arrived to the Astrodome in Houston. As of Friday 9/2/05 11,375 already inside de dome. Door now close, thousand wait in adjacent buildings, some get in other wait outside. A new phtographer captures the moment.
New Orleans evacuees arrived to the Astrodome in Houston. As of Friday 9/2/05 11,375 already inside de dome. Door now close, thousand wait in adjacent buildings, some get in other wait outside. A new phtographer captures the moment.
Almost a week later buses still driving into Houston, most of this people must now continue to Dallas or San Antonio.
Hundreds outside the Astrodome in Houston can't get in. Many wait outisde for buses to taken elsewhere. Temperatures outise reach 90F. There's water and people are able to get food, some in need also get medical attention, a few get into this building Reliant Plaza adjacent to the Astrodome.
Evacuees inside Reliant building next to the Astrodome. Thousands of voices, noice, people sleeping, other in wheel chairs, some with smile, others just a blank llok in their eyes.
An elederly marked zone at adjacent Astrodome facilities. A long line in the back waiting for food.
An elderely woman in a wheel chair... another person seems to sleep next by while a line of people in the back wait for their turn for a meal.
A man walks among thousands in buildings adjacent to the Astrodome, hoping to find -as the sign reads- "Shirley Mae Washington"
Evacuees who finally made it to Houston, now board to Dallas and San Antonio, a nurse helps a disabled man.
Petrolina, she is 90 years old. She survived and escaped New Orleans... through my cell she finally reaches her daughter.... tears of joy... yet it hurts.
90 year old Petrolina and her 70 year old son used our news crew cell to call a relative. Tears of joy and a painful cry for help... "We need you, we need you... we're alive, please, please come get us, we're in Houston, come get us!"
