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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  This whole controversy surrounding the hurricane seemed SO manufactured...[/quote]

Definitely manufactured outrage.  [b]Anyone with any experience with storm relief or similar activities knows that you can't just "open your doors." [/b] Creating, staffing, supplying and maintaining a shelter is a massive undertaking, and without the infrastructure and expertise for doing so, it could have been a disaster itself.  Just what happened to the Superdome after Katrina.  Aside from the storm damage itself, that place became a crime infested cesspool overnight.  The church was right to direct people to existing shelters operated by FEMA, Red Cross, and other organizations that know what they are doing.  The shelters in Houston were never full; there was no need for Lakewood to have turned itself into a shelter at the time.[/quote]

Here's what's interesting: after reading the back and forth in this thread I tried to figure out what the truth was, and Snopes shows that the Church's official position is that they never closed their doors.  Yes, he did tweet that the Church was "inaccessible due to floods" and told people to go to shelters, and then people posted a bunch of pictures showing no flooding at the church, and then other people posted pictures of flooding (near the area, but not at the church itself).

Apparently since in the back of their head they were going to serve as (unannounced) overflow once the shelters hit capacity, their doors were always open metaphorically, even though they were locked in reality.  So it's fun to watch people defending him by contradicting the church's official position - saying "you can't open the doors" and "they were totally flooded, it's not safe" when the Church says "we were never closed" and "we were going to take in anyone from the overflow."  [/quote]

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