{"id":1045,"date":"2005-09-07T22:16:29","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T02:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2005-09-07T22:16:29","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T02:16:29","slug":"evacuees-stories-are-moving-but-fence-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Evacuees&#8217; stories are moving, but fence isn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Carman<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/carman\/ci_3006502\">Denver Post Staff Columnist<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/carman\/ci_3006502\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/aurora.jpg?resize=220%2C165\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" border=0\/\" alt=\"Verne Stovall, foreground, and her daughter-in-law, Jacquelyn Augustine, stand at a fence separating them from reporters and others Tuesday at the Community College of Aurora. Stovall recalled how she was rescued Sunday with 23 other people from a flooded house in New Orleans. Post \/ Glenn Asakawa\" style = \"padding: 2px;\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If I didn&#8217;t know better, I&#8217;d have thought I was peering through the fence at a concentration camp. <\/p>\n<p>The signs on the buildings say &#8220;Community College of Aurora,&#8221; though for now they&#8217;re serving as an impromptu Camp Katrina. About 160 hurricane survivors are being housed in the dorms, surrounded by fences, roadblocks, security guards and enough armed police officers to invade Grenada. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a credentials unit to process every visitor, an intake unit to provide identification tags and a bag of clothes to every evacuee, several Salvation Army food stations, portable toilets, shuttle buses, a green army-tent chapel with church services three times a day and a communications team to keep reporters as far away from actual news as possible. <\/p>\n<p>It probably was easier for a reporter to get inside Gitmo on Tuesday than to penetrate the force field around Lowry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Carman Denver Post Staff Columnist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-gR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}