From the half-baked-silver-lining department

From the Associated Press, FEMA may put storm victims in foreclosed homes:

The idea is still being developed, but FEMA would likely contact banks, other mortgage holders and their representatives to compile a list of available homes. The evacuees would then be assigned homes close to their own and FEMA would use a contractor, acting as its agent, to pay rent directly to whoever owns the home, said Jon Arno, FEMA's individual assistance branch director for Florida.

I suppose we can all just hope we never need to discover just how impractical this is. It also seems as if an unused prison would be more on point:

"When you have a diaspora that leaves the state it's very hard to get those guys back. You really want to prevent them from leaving the state," said Jeff Bryant, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's federal coordinating officer for Florida.