Hurricane Sandy refugees treated like prisoners

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/10...ls-like-prison
There is the article. I've also read another article and people can't even use electricity to charges their phones and what not even though they have it. Here is a short summary

"No one is allowed to go anywhere without showing their I.D. Even to use the bathroom, "you have to show your badge,"

"the mini city has no cigarettes, no books, no magazines, no board games, no TVs, and no newspapers or radios. On Friday night, in front of the mess hall, which was serving fried chicken and out-of-the-box, just-add-water potatoes, a child was dancing and dancing — to nothing. "We're starting to lose it," said Decamp. "But we have nowhere else to go."

"The post-storm housing — a refugee camp on the grounds of the Monmouth Park racetrack - is in lockdown, with security guards at every door, including the showers."

Although people are not forced to stay, the people that lost everything, where are they to go?

Obviously things will get better with time, I'm just amased that no matter how much they try, they can never be fully prepared for a hurricane...

And if they can't 'charge their phones', it doesn't sound too desperate, I mean, technology would be the least of my worries if I didn't have a house...