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Teema: Re: Hurricane relief numbers and shelters(Katrina)
Other numbers:
Road close Hotline:1800-469-4828
Military Info line:1888-777-7731
Coast guard rescue: 1800-323-7237
NO Health Department:504-658-2500
Family info:www.firstgov.gov
Large numbe of airlifts today. Gas crisis causing havock with all the refugees. Hotels from LA to Florida booked solid by refugees. Along the way gas stations out of Gas...over six hour lines of stalled cars waiting for fuel. Many stores along the route completely empty of goods. Military airlifts more than 47 flights today. Huge numbers still at convention center in NO. Heat, lack of water,lack of food,lack of diapers,lack of medicine,lack of just about everything causing deaths. The dead lying next to the living inside the dome. People still trapped inside various parts of the city.
Medical volunteers visit: www.hhs.gov, www.nih.gov, www.medicalreservecorps.gov
Shallow draft boats such as the swampers aka. fan boats perhaps the best means of transport in many parts of the city.
For more information: www.redcross.org, www.fema.gov
No matter what part of the US or even foreign aid welcome. But please go through the red cross, salvation army, and other sites I have listed. Official sites. There is a little progress, but the situation is still dire. Every prayer and every hand that helps is needed. Families are shattered, seperated, and starving. It is a tide of displaced humanity that has nowhere to go and everything they own in a single car or a single bag. If you ask what can I do? Visit the red cross sites, call the shelters...For now aid is the most important factor.