Real Luxury Cruises: 08 September 2005

It's not all smooth sailing on cruise ships available to evaucuees
GALVESTON, Texas To many Hurricane Katrina evacuees who endured the storm's horror and its aftermath in the New Orleans Superdome and days of crowded uncertainty in Houston's Astrodome, it seemed way too good to be true: The federal government was offering them refuge aboard three luxury cruise ships?
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Cruise ship relocation plan on hold
FEMA finds storm victims reluctant to leave shelters HOUSTON - A plan by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to relocate storm victims from the Astrodome and other shelters to luxury cruise ships hit a snag yesterday: The residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina don't want to move again.
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Cruise ship plan doesn't go over well among evacuees
HOUSTON -- A plan by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to relocate evacuees from the Astrodome and other shelters here to luxury cruise ships hit a snag yesterday: The residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina don't want to move again.
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Plans for shelters on cruise ships dropped
GALVESTON Federal officials have abandoned plans to house more than 4,000 Hurricane Katrina survivors on luxury liners in Galveston. With scores of volunteers and city officials on alert, word came Wednesday that there still were no takers among evacuees for the floating shelters.
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