Texas struggles to cope with hurricane influx
AFP, September, 2005
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HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — Texas has been swamped by hundreds of thousands of refugees from Hurricane Katrina, straining resources in a state where government is small and people fend for themselves.
The Lone Star state, cradle of President George W. Bush's philosophy of muscular individualism, says it is doing its best to welcome the bedraggled exodus from New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast devastated by Katrina.
But officials warn that shelters, hospitals and schools in Texas, which has some of the lowest levels of social spending in the United States, risk being overwhelmed.
Governor Rick Perry, who succeeded Bush in 2000, wrote to the president on Thursday to appeal for federal help.
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"We will do all we can as a state and a people to help our neighbours to the east who have lost so much," he said.
"Hurricane Katrina, a disaster for our neighbouring ...
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