Katrina Evacuee Relocation Thread

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Trying to compile a resource for DU here. I am not trying to compare states. Please post links under states below where Evacuees are going.

Thanks.

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1. Alabama -- post here

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126. Anniston, Fort McClellan, 1000

Posted on Tue, Sep. 06, 2005
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/12573589.htm

Fort McClellan staff getting ready for evacuees
Associated Press

FORT McCLELLAN, Ala. - The dorms at Fort McClellan have stood empty for the past six years, the paint peeling, pipes rusting and everything covered with dust. But staff there hurriedly overhauled the facilities to welcome some unexpected guests: Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

The 12,000-acre Army base is one of several Alabama sites the Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved to help house the thousands of people Katrina has driven into the state....

Schneider said Tuesday the fort was prepared to house about 1,000 people and awaited word from FEMA on when to expect the evacuees. She said the dorms would be available for up to two years.

FEMA will cover the costs of renovating and running the dorms as part of disaster relief.

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128. Troy, RV Park, 300 hookups - AL state "Golden Rule Plan" 10,000 total

http://www.troymessenger.com/articles/2005/09/06/news/news02.txt

What's next for evacuees
By Ken Rogers, The Messenger
Sep 05, 2005 - 20:45:00 CDT

Many short-term needs of Hurricane Katrina evacuees to who fled to Pike County were met last week and over the holiday weekend....

The mayor's suggestion is exactly the kind of response the Governor was hoping for when he announced his Operation Golden Rule plan for Alabama to find long-term housing for 10,000 evacuees from Louisiana and Mississippi.

The mayor suggested sending motor homes and trailers from Craig Air Force Base in Selma to fill spaces in the Troy area. Gov. Riley told him he would get back with him - and the mayor got that return call on Monday.

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175. Talladega, Shcco Springs Baptist Convention Ctr 47

http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2005/dh-talladega-0908-0-5i07v3735.htm

Shocco opens it doors to evacuees
By Kenneth Lambert
09-08-2005

— Like many places providing shelter for Hurricane Katrina evacuees, Shocco Springs Baptist Convention Center has opened its doors to families without a place to stay.
A Labor Day cookout was held for the first group that arrived from the different areas affected by the hurricane. Shocco Springs executive director Buster Taylor said they wanted the families to feel as if they were at home during this difficult time.

Twenty-seven evacuees attended the Labor Day cookout. There are now 47 people staying at the convention center, and 19 of those are children ranging in age from 10 months to 13 years.

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195. Governor Opens Up State Parks for Evacuees

http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3820674&nav=0RdEeGgB
Sep 8, 2005, 12:40 AM

The outpouring of support continues for those devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Those left with nothing, may soon have a place to call home for now. Governor Bob Riley has opened up the state parks as temporary housing for displaced families. Now, FEMA is working to get hundreds of mobile homes installed at parks like Wind Creek off Lake Martin.

Wind Creek will soon be home for close to 3,000 displaced people. Park superintendent, Phil Easterwood, "This is transitional housing for evacuees."

Easterwood is working with FEMA to set up 500 small mobile homes for evacuees. "They are brand new," he says.

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212. Katrina evacuees leaving Alabama shelters

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12604299.htm

Associated Press
Saturday, Sep 10, 2005

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Shelters housing displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina are slowly emptying across Alabama, leaving evacuees to wonder what's next.

"I've heard them say they were going to place us somewhere else, but where that somewhere else is, I don't know," said Venita Seals of New Orleans, who stayed in an American Red Cross shelter at Birmingham's civic center.

Statewide, the Red Cross said more than 5,400 people had been served at shelters in Alabama since the storm. Thousands more have stayed in hotels, private homes, state parks or cars. The governor's office has estimated that as many as 20,000 evacuees were in Alabama aside from those in official shelters, but getting an accurate count is virtually impossible...

"Nobody's going to be kicked out on the street," said Piggott. "We're not sending anyone somewhere they don't want to go."

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2. Alaska -- post here

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113. Anchorage, pending

http://www.ktuu.com/CMS/templates/alaska_news/master.asp?articleid=15006&zoneid=4

Saturday, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich announced a new plan to try and house the homeless. He's asked the Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau to provide information to the city's emergency operations center about available beds.

Anchorage has more than 8,000 hotel rooms and another 800 Bed and Breakfasts

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215. Katrina evacuees coming to Fairbanks

http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3047020,00.html

By AMANDA BOHMAN

, Staff Writer
Four evacuees of Hurricane Katrina have landed in Fairbanks, with more to come, according to the local chapter of the American Red Cross.

"We are trying to get evacuees closer to family," Neva Baker, Red Cross spokeswoman, said....

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3. Arizona -- post here

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53. Phoenix, Veterans Memorial Coliseum 1,800

Officials: Arizona well prepared to assist refugees
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0905govevacuees-ON.html#

Jacques Billeaud
Associated Press Writer
Sept. 5, 2005 04:09 PM

PHOENIX - Arizona is well prepared to assist Hurricane Katrina refugees seeking shelter here, and evacuees won't stress the state's social services or schools, officials said Monday.

So far, the state has taken in about 530 refugees, nearly all of whom are sheltered at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.

Arizona has a capacity to accept a total of 1,800 refugees at the coliseum and Tucson Convention Center, but is working on plans to accommodate evacuees at other undisclosed locations if the need arises, said Jeanine L'Ecuyer, a spokeswoman for Gov. Janet Napolitano.

"So far, it is working very well," L'Ecuyer said of the Arizona relief effort.

The first wave of Gulf Coast evacuees, some of whom were rescued from a highway overpass in New Orleans on Saturday, began arriving in Arizona on Sunday.

More flights were expected, but officials said none were scheduled for Monday.

Evacuees were greeted by relief workers with hugs and handshakes. A few too ill to go to the shelter were sent on to a hospital.

Officials say it was unclear how long people would stay at shelters but that the state was trying to coordinate transitional housing. In addition to providing spiritual help, members of church groups have offered to take refugees into their homes.

The state was prepared to help address the needs of refugees, including making arrangements for health care, assistance in seeking federal welfare benefits and placing children in schools, L'Ecuyer said.

Even though the state was asked by federal authorities on Friday to accept evacuees, officials had some time to prepare, because the governor had first offered to accept refugees the day after the hurricane struck the Gulf Coast, L'Ecuyer said.

While it's not known how many refugees the state could ultimately receive, L'Ecuyer said the effort would likely put little stress on Arizona's social service or school systems.

"That's quite small when compared to the number of people in Arizona on a social service basis," L'Ecuyer said.

She said the state can help sustain the evacuees over the long-term. "We will take care of these people as long as they need it," L'Ecuyer said.

Officials in drought-stricken Arizona, which has conducted several evacuations over the past few wildfire seasons, also are experienced in setting up shelters and addressing the needs of evacuees, L'Ecuyer said.

"Unfortunately, with the forest fires and everything we have had in the last couple of years, we have a fair amount of practice in terms of evacuations," Napolitano said after she toured shelter operations Sunday at the coliseum.

The costs of Arizona's refugee effort were unavailable Monday morning.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne said he has sent a letter to schools instructing them to admit children who are refugees of Hurricane Katrina, even if they lack the necessary birth, residency or vaccination records.

The number of refugee children in Arizona was unavailable Monday morning.

Horne said the state will pay for educating the evacuee children by using federal dollars set aside for educating homeless children.

"We could probably used a few hundred of thousands of dollars for emergency purposes," Horne said.

If it costs more, Horne said he could ask the Arizona Legislature or federal government for more funding.

"I don't think the numbers will be that large," Horne said.

Phoenix Elementary and Phoenix Union High schools have spots available for refugee children, Horne said.

On the Net:

Arizona information center: http://www.az211.gov

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170. Phoenix count should be more like 1,100 according to another ...

news article, this one says 1,800 together with Tucson, now that Tucson has placed their post here and I cannot edit the original, I will make the correction here. If this should change and the number goes up or down I will post the update. This is a good thread I appreciate the author and what they are trying to do.

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85. Tucson - 800 in Tucson Convention Center

Influx of refugees expected today

About 1,000 will be housed in Phoenix's coliseum and 800 in Tucson Convention Center.

The Associated Press

PHOENIX - The first Hurricane Katrina evacuees were expected to arrive in Tucson today after flights scheduled to Phoenix fill up beds in the state capital.
The influx of evacuees from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama won't stress Arizona's social services or schools, officials said yesterday.

Arizona has a capacity to accept a total of 1,800 refugees through government-coordinated efforts. About 1,000 of those could stay at the coliseum and the rest at the Tucson Convention Center, 260 S. Church Ave.

Dozens more residents of the hurricane-ravaged region already have made their way to Tucson on their own.

And, officials say, they were working on plans to accommodate evacuees at other undisclosed locations if necessary.

"You take who comes and you deal with them person by person," Gov. Janet Napolitano said yesterday. "You make sure the children get in school, healthy adults get jobs, help them find housing. I am fully confident we will be able to do that."

As of yesterday, the state has taken in about 530 refugees, nearly all of whom were sheltered at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.

The first wave of Gulf Coast evacuees, some of whom were rescued from a highway overpass in New Orleans on Saturday, began arriving in Arizona on Sunday.

No evacuee flights to Arizona were scheduled yesterday.

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=090605a4_hurricaneevacuees

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169. New batch of refugees set to arrive in Tucson 3 hours ago

http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=3820019

TUCSON, Ariz. Three hots and cot await nearly 80 refugees who arrived this afternoon in Tucson from the Gulf Coast.

They've joined the more than one-thousand others who came to Arizona by plane or private vehicle after Hurricane Katrina devastated wide areas of Louisiana and Mississippi.

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156. Scottsdale, Becker site offered for evacuees

http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/0907sr-becker07Z8.html

Lesley Wright
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 7, 2005 12:00 AM

SCOTTSDALE - Stymied again in efforts to develop his land at Happy Valley and Pima roads, Henry Becker has offered all 90 acres to the Red Cross to house evacuees from Hurricane Katrina.

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214. Arizona census Sep 9th 1000

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15187510&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68561&rfi=6

Plans to put evacuees at mission on hold

By JILL ZAREND-KUBATKO, Valley Life Editor

...More than 1,000 evacuees have come to Arizona via plane or private vehicle after Hurricane Katrina devastated wide areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. As of Wednesday, 457 refugees remained at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix and about one-third of those had decided to make a permanent home in Arizona, authorities said.

Assessment teams also are meeting with individuals and families of evacuees at shelters in Tucson to begin assessing housing and other needs. More than 80 refugees arrived in Tucson this week.

Refugee stabilization efforts proceed in Ariz
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0909az-hurricane-evacuees09-ON.html
Associated Press
Sept. 9, 2005 03:04 PM

TUCSON - The population of hurricane refugees staying in Arizona shelters dwindled Friday, but facilities remained at capacity levels on indefinite standby for accommodating more Gulf Coast evacuees.

Meanwhile, efforts to stabilize refugees' lives moved forward.

Of more than 600 refugees who were brought to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix and the Tucson Convention Center, nearly half had left those locations by Thursday night.

Only 285 of the 576 evacuees initially taken to the coliseum slept there Thursday night, and another 62 spent the night at the Tucson center, down five from the night before, Red Cross officials said....

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4. Arkansas -- post here

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79. Fort Chaffee, LIttle Rock Pine Bluff Convention Center various 70,000

http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0905/257402.html

The evacuees are to be processed in Pine Bluff and then sent on to about twenty locations around Arkansas, mostly church camps. The governor's office says that hundreds of state Health and Human Services workers are deployed statewide this morning to aid the evacuees. In Quinn's words quote, "a city of nine thousand people has arrived overnight.''

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/387253nm09-05-05.htm

ARKANSAS: Gov. Mike Huckabee says Arkansas likely had 50,000 evacuees in the state as of Friday and another 20,000 could be expected

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213. No more evacuees due here, officials indicate

http://www.theeveningtimes.com/articles/2005/09/09/news/news1.txt

Friday, September 09, 2005

By Jamie Brockwell
Evening Times Staff Writer
The large groups of Hurricane Katrina evacuees that local shelters have been preparing to house are not coming after all according to Ronny Rogers, director of the Crittenden County Emergency Management Agency.

Rogers said that Arkansas Department of Emergency Management (ADEM) released information this morning indicating there are no more evacuees being brought into the state in large numbers....

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5. California -- post here

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94. San Francisco, Hunters Point & Sunnydale 200

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/05/BAGH4EILCM1.DTL

At least 300 evacuees may start arriving today in San Francisco, where they will be offered temporary shelter, access to jobs, city schools and permanent quarters in public housing, authorities said.

San Jose will take up to 100 victims, but there was no word on when they were expected to arrive or how they would be housed, according to a city official.

By quickly responding to the victims' needs, San Francisco could lose out on funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, state officials have warned.

"If they haven't used the normal procedures, they take a risk," Henry Renteria, director of the governor's Office of Emergency Services, said in a news conference Sunday. "If you don't do it according to the rules established by the state and FEMA, you could take on expenses not deemed eligible (for reimbursement.)"

http://kron.com/Global/story.asp?S=3750677

Posted August 22, 2005 at 9:15 a.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Tenants that rent space in the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard will soon have to move.

The Navy has sent out eviction notices so it can begin cleaning up the former ship repair facility.

The shipyard is home to an eclectic community that includes more than 300 artists. Other renters include the Golden Gate Railroad Museum, a skateboard parts maker and the San Francisco Police Department's crime lab and SWAT team.

The property is being transferred from the Navy to San Francisco, but federal law requires that the Navy first clean up the property of the low levels of radioactive materials that have been found in the ground.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4661778#4661861

from Duer CityZen-X post #9
Local news here in the S.F. had a report last night that refugees from N.O. are going to be housed in the Hunters Point District. Hunters Point is a closed military facility surrounded by housing projects which are considered to be the most dangerous neighborhoods in the City.
It has been classified as a war zone, with numerous gangs and their Faustian drug trade. Drive by shootings are as common as crack pipes being lit!

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131. Santa Clara County (San Jose, Sunnyvale)

Have heard a range of numbers - from 100 individuals to 100 families.

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151. San Jose (link to news stor)

San Jose State University to help evacuees
http://www.mercurynews.com%2Fmld%2Fmercurynews%2Fnews%2Flocal%2F12582413.htm (subscription req'd)

By Deborah Lohse

Mercury News

The 100 evacuees coming to San Jose from gulf states devastated by Hurricane Katrina will be housed in Spartan Village of San Jose State University, which has about 60 apartment units that formerly served as student family housing, officials said this morning.

A news conference scheduled for 12:30 p.m. today will provide more details.

San Jose will initially receive 100 evacuees from the devastated gulf-state region. Mayor Ron Gonzales's office has been working with Santa Clara County officials, the local chapter of the Red Cross, and San Jose State University to organize housing and support services for people who will be arriving in the South Bay. It's not known when they will arrive.

San Jose State built new high rises for the families that formerly lived in Spartan Village, which is currently empty.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/

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158. Federal evacuation of Katrina victims to California on hold

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3820285
KESQ, CA - 26 minutes ago

SACRAMENTO California's plans to house 1,000 federally sponsored Hurricane Katrina evacuees are on hold after officials say survivors balked at moving so far away from their families and damaged homes.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is telling California state and local officials to delay preparations to house refugees who were to have been flown in from Texas

But Governor Schwarzenegger estimates that hundreds, if not thousands, of evacuees made their way to California on their own and are enrolling in schools and getting assistance from local and state agencies.

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164. Los Angeles, Dream Center 120

http://www.fresnobee.com/state_wire/story/11188557p-11940978c.html

Katrina evacuees adapting to LA, uncertain about their future
By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer

(Updated Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 4:50 PM)

...Caesh, Fortia and their other family members are among the more than 120 evacuees relocated to the Dream Center near downtown Los Angeles. Coordinator Ana Cortez has been overwhelmed by the number of phone calls from people pledging assistance to those in need....

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183. Santa Monica 12

http://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2005/September-2005/09_08_05_Santa_Monica_Welcomes_Victims.htm

Santa Monica Welcomes First Hurricane Victims

By Ann K. Williams
Staff Writer

September 8 -- Santa Monica began welcoming the first of what could be as many as several hundred victims of Hurricane Katrina this week, when the Red Cross took in half a dozen families visiting the area when the cataclysmic storm hit the Gulf Coast....

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6. Colorado -- post here

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72. Denver, Lowry Air Force base, 1000?

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4936614/detail.html

,000 Hurricane Victims Expected To Be Housed At Former Lowry Air Force Base

POSTED: 9:03 am MDT September 5, 2005
UPDATED: 12:07 pm MDT September 5, 2005

DENVER -- Several flights of Hurricane Katrina refugees into the Denver area scheduled for Monday have been canceled. Buckley Air Force Base officials said the flights were expected to begin arriving Monday morning.

About 125 refugees arrived by plane Sunday

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125. I was told the Salvation Army is sponsoring the evacuees at Lowry

here is the number: 303-866-9280

The lady at Lowry redevelopment Corporation was helpfu, but she has no names of evacuees or detials.

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127. I just came from the Red Cross volunteer training.

Will be doing intake at Lowry starting on Monday.

Denver RC is ovrwhelmed with volunteers and is not taking any more to work their Call Center or to work at Lowry. However, the Mile High Chapter of the Red Cross desperately needs volunteers to help them answer their regular switchboard and phones in individual departments.

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137. Aurora, Community College, Interviews with evacuees

http://www.denverpost.com/carman/ci_3006502
Article Last Updated: 09/07/2005 03:37:49 AM

diane carman
Evacuees' stories are moving, but fence isn't
By Diane Carman
Denver Post Staff Columnist

If I didn't know better, I'd have thought I was peering through the fence at a concentration camp.

The signs on the buildings say "Community College of Aurora," though for now they're serving as an impromptu Camp Katrina. About 160 hurricane survivors are being housed in the dorms, surrounded by fences, roadblocks, security guards and enough armed police officers to invade Grenada.

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7. Connecticut -- post here

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116. Armories being readied, private homes offered.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15156449&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=6

Rell approves paid leave for employees to help hurricane victims
By: Keith M. Phaneuf, Journal Inquirer Staff Writer September 05, 2005

...Last week Connecticut armories began accepting donations of bottled water and easy-to-open, non-perishable food, diapers, blankets, towels and washcloths, new socks and underwear, and hygiene items like toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, and shampoo.
Thousands of cases of supplies already have been shipped from Connecticut armories, according to the governor's office.
"As they always do, Connecticut residents have opened their hearts and wallets to help their fellow Americans," Rell said, adding that assistance still is needed. "All of us have been moved by the images that continue to emanate from the Gulf Coast. This nightmare will continue for weeks, perhaps months to come."
The Hartford Armory will reopen Monday, and all six state armories will reopen Tuesday to accept supplies for those devastated by the storm.
Besides the facility in Hartford, the other five state armories are located in New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Putnam, and Waterbury.

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8. Delaware -- post here

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9. Florida -- post here

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78. Florida Shelter Database various locations

http://www.eoconline.org/EM_Live/shelter.nsf

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102. First Coast FL from Navy base in Pascagoula, Mississippi

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=43771

Pinter says most of the kids are coming from a Navy base in Pascagoula, Mississippi. He feels the Navy gives the First Coast community so much. He believes it's an honor to be able to help the military families and all who need it.

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180. Palm Beach Cothoroughbred training ctr dormatory 211, RC 808+

http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/wptv/article/0,2547,TCP_1213_4063206,00.html

Thousands seeking shelter from Katrina in Florida
By Brendan Farrington
September 7, 2005

The official count of Katrina refugees in Florida was 808 Wednesday. That's just the folks in Red Cross shelters.

The vast majority of people who still haven't returned to Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama are staying in hotels, with friends or relatives, in the homes of strangers who have opened up their doors and anywhere else they can find a bed. There's even 211 staying in a Palm Beach County thoroughbred training center dormitory.

Chris Floyd of the capital area Red Cross Chapter asked counterparts around the state if they had an idea of how many evacuees were in the state. He was told to get out a Ouiji board. There's no doubt, though, that the number is in the thousands.

"Probably even tens of thousands," he said. "Many of them are definitely beginning to blend in."

(lots more details and info on pockets of evacuees)

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207. Destin, Destin inn spared from wrecking ball to shelter Katrina evacuees

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12591589.htm

Associated Press

DESTIN, Fla. - A 32-room bed-and-breakfast inn has been spared from the wrecking ball for six months to house Hurricane Katrina evacuees at no charge in this Florida Panhandle resort city.

He obtained approval from his partner, Rupert Phillips, to use the inn as a shelter for about 150 evacuees.

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10. Georgia -- post here

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75. Columbus, RC Shelter and various 500

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/12568228.htm

The American Red Cross will keep its Benning Drive shelter for Hurricane Katrina evacuees open for the foreseeable future.

On Monday, 70 people were housed at the Benning Park Super Center, a Columbus Parks and Recreation facility, said Mitzi Oxford, development director for the West Central Georgia Chapter of the Red Cross. That's down from a high of about 230 in the shelter Friday. It is the only Red Cross shelter open in the city.

Evacuees are finding alternative housing, but another 50 still are eating at the shelter, and the Red Cross still is providing services for about 500 evacuees in the area, Oxford said.

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76. Marietta, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, 5,000 +

http://www.theweekly.com/news/2005/September/04/Dobbins.html

MARIETTA, GA (Sep. 4) - Today Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta is expecting nine airplanes delivering hundreds more Hurricane Katrina evacuees to Georgia. Officials on the ground at Dobbins expect three C-130s transporting evacuees with medical needs, and six Delta aircraft transporting ambulatory individuals. Staff members of the American Red Cross, Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) and Department of Human Resources (DHR) are waiting at Dobbins, prepared to meet the evacuees with food, water, and transportation to medical facilities or shelters.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) estimates up to 5,000 evacuees will eventually arrive at Dobbins via aircraft. This estimate does not include evacuees arriving by bus or individual vehicle transportation.

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77. Open Shelters in Georgia

http://rome.gema.state.ga.us/webgema/Shelters.nsf/ByShelterStatus?OpenForm

Legend: FDLP - Flood Plain; ARC - American Red Cross Approved Shelter; PF - Pet Friendly;
SN - Special Needs; Open; Closed; Full; ARC Approved Shelter;
Pet Friendly Shelter; Special Needs Capability; No; Yes.


County Status ARC PF SN Shelter Name Capacity
Cobb

Lost Mountain Park 150
Colquitt

Norman Baptist Assembly 350
Coweta

Central Baptist Church 250
Dekalb

Atlanta Temple Salvation Army Shelter 115
Peachcrest Salvation Army Shelter 115
Dougherty

Beatty Road Church Of God 75
Fulton

Georgia Tech Alexander Memorial Coliseum 500
Jones

Gray United Methodist Church 70
Lowndes

Central Avenue Church Of Christ 45
Muscogee

Benning Super Center 350
Newton

Georgia Ffa-Sccla Center 450
Putnam

Rock Eagle 4-H Center 1000
Richmond

Warren Baptist Church 250
Troup

Tatam School Building 100
Walton

Corinth Christian Church 270
Whitfield

First Baptist Church Of Dalton 175

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206. Georgia prepares for new influx of refugees

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12583241.htm

Posted on Wed, Sep. 07, 2005
MIKE STOBBE
Associated Press

ATLANTA - State health officials say they're preparing for as many as 25,000 more refugees from Hurricane Katrina to come to the Atlanta metropolitan area.

The 20-county area already has become home to thousands from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The flow of more than 1,000 refugees per day has slowed to a relative trickle, but that may soon pick up as chartered commercial flights carrying evacuees are expected start again as early as Friday, said Dr. J. Patrick O'Neal of the Georgia Division of Public Health.

The flights, some provided by Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, had virtually ended on Labor Day, O'Neal said Wednesday.

So far, the American Red Cross has reported assisting 14,000 refugee families in the state. About 1,500 storm victims are staying in 17 Red Cross shelters across Georgia and countless others are staying at motels, churches or with friends and family.

O'Neal said many of the new evacuees expected to arrive in Atlanta may come from Houston, where about 8,000 storm victims from New Orleans are sleeping on cots at the Astrodome. Officials are looking to relocate some of those refugees to other cities, including Atlanta...

The Atlanta-area medical system has been focused on emergency cases, including at least 370 patients transferred from New Orleans hospitals. But now, the system will have to better handle perhaps thousands of patients who need prescription medicines, dialysis and other forms of life-sustaining care, said Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, Grady's chief executive.

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11. Hawaii -- post here

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12. Idaho -- post here

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13. Illinois -- post here

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103. location unknown 10,000

http://www.ksdk.com/news/illinois_article.aspx?storyid=84285

The state of Illinois has been told to expect as many as 10,000 evacuees. Five different cities have been told to accept arrivals Tuesday

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142. Chicago 300 :mentions Alton, Rockford & Peoria

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_250080717.html
Evacuees Call Temporary Chicago Shelters Home
Illinois To Provide Months Of Support For Katrina Victims

Chelsea Irving

About 180 bleary-eyed victims of Hurricane Katrina staggered into the aptly named House of Hope church on Chicago's South Side this morning before heading to other relief sites...

About a thousand evacuees are calling Illinois home for the time being. Many people are getting their new beginning here at the State Health Center in Tinley Park. They are providing not just the first level of help – food, clothing, and shelter – but they are going beyond that to provide emotional support certainly after the trauma they just lived through and, beyond that, job training.

The governor's office says Illinois expects to provide housing, food and medical care to up to 10,000 evacuees. Several communities around the state including Alton, Peoria and Rockford have been preparing for the hurricane victims.

[Bobbie47]

211. Alton, Illinois

got 173 people on Wednesday night Sept 7,2005. My local paper said Granite City, Illinois is also to use the Melvin Price Support Center. They said would support 200 people.

In Alton they are at the Willow building in the Alton Mental Health Center.

[preciousdove]

14. Indiana -- post here

[preciousdove]

74. Indianapolis, Fair Grounds 60+, Salvation Army Shelter 450+

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/12565932.htm
Posted on Mon, Sep. 05, 2005

INDIANAPOLIS – Dozens of hurricane survivors were staying Sunday in a former dormitory at the Indiana State Fairgrounds after arriving on a mercy flight from New Orleans, and the American Red Cross was preparing to house as many as 500 more evacuees.

About 60 Katrina evacuees were being housed in Centennial Hall, arriving Friday on a Republic Airways mercy flight sponsored by the city and area relief agencies.

Others who were flown in Saturday were taken to a Salvation Army shelter, and some were being treated at a hospital.

[preciousdove]

108. Fort Wayne, YWCA 600

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/12572852.htm

Storm victims headed to city
State, FEMA reach agreement to bring 600 people from devastated areas to Fort Wayne

By Sheena Dooley
[e-mail]

American Red Cross officials expect as many as 600 evacuees from hurricane ravaged areas to arrive in Fort Wayne this week.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state have worked with the Red Cross of Northeast Indiana since Hurricane Katrina ripped through Louisiana and Mississippi last week to bring displaced people to Fort Wayne. Officials notified the Red Cross Saturday that FEMA would likely fly in numerous evacuees within a week, but provided few details...

The Red Cross plans to house evacuees at the YWCA, where they will have cots to sleep on and free warm meals. They will also be given money to buy clothes and other necessities. Mac Aulay said the Red Cross will provide services to them for at least 120 days.

[IndyOp]

220. Bloomington, Indiana - up to 120 evacuees

Indiana University offers refuge to evacuees and 100 new students

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Preliminary reports from Indiana University campuses indicate that more than 100 students from Southern universities impacted by Hurricane Katrina have enrolled at the university.

Early next week, the IU Bloomington campus also expects to provide shelter for 120 to 130 people who have been evacuated from the disaster area. They will be coming in two groups and will be cared for at Ashton Center until they can be permanently housed in Bloomington.

<snip>

The first group of evacuees being cared for by the American Red Cross is expected to arrive on Monday (Sept. 12). The state plan calls for the first arrivals from the Katrina area to go to Indianapolis, where 400 can be accommodated. When that number has been reached, the Red Cross will start assigning students to other cities, including Bloomington.

Current plans call for evacuees in Bloomington to be housed at Ashton until long-term housing needs are met.

<http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/2408.html>

[preciousdove]

15. Iowa -- post here

[preciousdove]

64. no location, 5000

http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3808713&nav=1LFXe9v7

WEST DES MOINES- Governor Vilsack says Iowa may host as many as five–thousand evacuee families, and soon. He's called on all Iowans to open their hearts, and if needed their homes to hurricane victims.

[cbear70]

97. 100 to the Quad Cities

There is an empty apartment building they are going to use, they will fully supply everything..

[preciousdove]

104. Des Moines, State Fair Grounds 800+

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050906/NEWS/50906003/1001&lead=1

By TIM HIGGINS
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
September 6, 2005
Iowa is preparing for a flood of Hurricane Katrina evacuees, many of whom will be placed at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.

The evacuees could arrive in Des Moines as early as tonight.

[preciousdove]

173. Iowa Scales Back Refugree Preparations

http://www.theiowachannel.com/news/4946306/detail.html
Iowa Will Still Be Helping Hurricane Victims

POSTED: 5:51 pm CDT September 7, 2005
UPDATED: 6:18 pm CDT September 7, 2005

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa is scaling back its preparations to host Hurricane Katrina refugees because officials still don't know if any will come.

A refugee center at the Iowa State Fairgrounds is stocked with food, medical supplies and about 1,000 cots because Katrina survivors were expected to begin arriving Tuesday night.

[preciousdove]

16. Kentucky -- post here

[Roland99]

86. Louisville Prepares For Hundreds Of Hurricane Victims

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=3808831&nav=0RZFeA0G

Louisville will become a temporary home for hundreds of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, and city officials prepared Monday to meet the basic needs of evacuees -- from food and clothing to longer-term concerns such as housing and jobs.

At least 500 evacuees from the Gulf Coast were expected to be flown into Kentucky's largest city within the next 48 hours, Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson said.

City officials and relief agencies scrambled to find available housing. Red Cross volunteers set up a reception center at the East Hall of the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center that will provide 250 cots, dining areas, daycare and play areas and a lounge. Medical care will be available for evacuees, as will food, showers and clothes, Abramson said.

"The operation over the next couple of days will be focused on meeting the basic needs of these displaced citizens, giving them shelter, giving them comfort and giving them a community once again that they can call home," Abramson told reporters.

[preciousdove]

190. Louisville prepares to take more evacuees Hundreds likely; timing uncertai

By Chris Kenning
[e-mail]
The Courier-Journal
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050907/NEWS01/509070412/1008

With nearly 900 Hurricane Katrina evacuees already in Louisville, officials scrambled yesterday to prepare for hundreds more expected to fly in with as little as two hours' notice.

City officials anticipated receiving about 500 survivors from the Gulf Coast on commercial airliners at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base. Initially they were to arrive by today, but now it's not certain when they will come, although the city still expects them...

[preciousdove]

17. Louisiana -- please post here

[JaneGat]

93. La Place and Patterson

are where my relatives were taken.

[preciousdove]

143. Camp Covington

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4680644

anarchy1999 (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-05 12:48 PM
Original message
"Camp Covington" in LA, our Vets For Peace are in charge!
These people are doing an amazing job. You can also feel really good giving donations to them and sending the items they need. This is a group of strictly 100% volunteers making sure everything goes to the community and aid, no one making any big salaries or staying in nice hotels or arguing about who to blame and what to do. They are also helping these people to stay in Louisiana or get to where they need to go. They aren't being shipped out to Phoenix, DC, Utah and heaven only knows where else.

Don't forget, they were the first to arrive on the scene and when FEMA finally did get there, FEMA wanted them to leave. The RED CROSS said no, if they go we go. So now look at how much they have managed to accomplish.
Peace, anarchy1999

more..

[preciousdove]

146. nr Baton Rouge per former Lacombe resident

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4685844

...Just talked to my friend from Lacombe who is now staying in a motel in a small town near Baton Rouge, waiting to see if and when she will be able to return home. She is REALLY ticked off at the Feds and FEMA.

Things are happening very slowly--my friend says "ridiculously slowly". She adds, if you are hearing on the news that FEMA is really busting its butt to take care of everyone, that's NOT happening. The LOCAL people are the ones really helping--this includes small local churches, the local Red Cross, local restaurants, etc--all without much funding--are pooling their resources to help the hurricane victims. My friend says she has had a lesson in humanity from these local people.

Later tonight, she is going to sign up for emergency/disaster food stamps. These seem to be state funded--she says nothing federal has kicked in yet. Apparently the Feds haven't authorized any funding for anything. My friend says they are only funding the photo ops. She also says that everything she has gotten has all been locally donated. The town she is in can ill afford it. It is small, economically depressed, and neither the people nor its town government seem to have a lot of expendable income. But they are opening up their homes and welcoming the hurricane victims with open arms. Washington, of course, is AWOL. She says the Red Cross told her "They're having meetings." They were not happy about it....

[preciousdove]

148. Baton Rouge Fema sending 40,000 trailers from MI, IN & OH Sept 8

Winston702 (46 posts) Wed Sep-07-05 06:25 PM
Original message
40,000 trailers on the way to Baton Rouge
40,000 camping trailers 26' and longer are leaving tomorrow from MI,IN,and OH bound for Baton Rouge

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x154508

[preciousdove]

162. Baton Rouge 375,000+

http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1564807,00.html

...it is houses that have become the most desirable prey in a city that has more than doubled its population since Hurricane Katrina swept in off the Gulf coast, from around 227,000 to over 600,000.

According to Judy Burkett, president of the Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors, house prices have risen more than 20% since the storm, with more than 2,000 homes sold in less than 10 days. "I've got business to do, I'm too busy to give interviews," she said yesterday before hanging up the phone...

[preciousdove]

149. New Orleans Jail now at Greyhound Bus Station MSNBC

Camp Greyhound --New Orleans Jail Reopens In City's Bus Station (MSNBC) 07 Sep 2005 Concertina wire atop a fenced-off area which holds 'looters' and 'violent criminals,' with armed guards, 24/7.

http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

[preciousdove]

174. Lafayette 40,000, Many Displaced by Katrina Believed to Be With Relatives

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702415.html

By Blaine Harden and Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, September 8, 2005; Page A01

LAFAYETTE, La., Sept. 7 -- Owing to stealthy acts of hospitality that are largely invisible to government, aid agencies and the news media, hundreds of thousands of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina seem to be disappearing -- into the embrace of their extended families.

It is hard to see and harder to quantify, but kinfolk from Louisiana -- a state that has the most sedentary family structure in the country, with 79 percent of its current residents born here -- are quietly sponging up the bulk of the people whose homes have been destroyed in and around New Orleans, according to Red Cross officials, local politicians and longtime students of Louisiana hurricanes.

"This is certainly the most hospitable place that I have ever worked in," said Teresa Ellis, manager for shelters and feeding for the American Red Cross here in Lafayette, where local officials guess that about 40,000 evacuees have flooded into a city of 110,000. Most of the displaced are now believed to be living with kin.

[preciousdove]

210. Shelter at State Farm opens Friday

http://thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050908/NEWS05/509080318/1002/NEWS01
Originally published September 8, 2005

Evacuees will likely enjoy more privacy in the new building

By Elizabeth Fitch
[e-mail]

...The one-year contract between OEDC and the Red Cross is for $5,500 per day. Before the building's new role as a Red Cross shelter, it was widely thought to be the future home of Louisiana Delta Community College. Delta spokesman Bob Hammack said that rather than focusing on the building being used for another purpose, the college's goal right now is to enroll displaced students and teachers....

DU Discussion of site:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=155x2422

[preciousdove]

227. Flood survivors cuffed as evacuation begins (Sep 9th)

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1913892005

Original DU link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4735884

[preciousdove]

18. Maine -- post here

[preciousdove]

124. MEMA will meet on 9/7 with resources

http://waldo.villagesoup.com/Government/story.cfm?storyID=60276

Baldacci creates task force to coordinate support for hurricane survivors

By Staff

AUGUSTA (Sep 6): Gov. Baldacci has created a task force to assist Americans affected by Hurricane Katrina. The first meeting of the task force took place Monday at the Maine Emergency Management Agency.

The task force will identify the resources of the state government and coordinate and facilitate Maine's support for these displaced Americans, including relocation of the evacuees. The group will meet again Wednesday at MEMA headquarters....

In addition to the efforts to match existing public and private resources to the needs of the evacuees from the southern states, the governor said the state government website offers direction for citizens interested in helping the evacuees:

http://maine.gov/portal/katrina

[preciousdove]

19. Maryland -- post here

[undergroundpanther]

193. People opening thier homes

LUTHERVILLE, Md. -- Some Marylanders have opened their doors to the refugees displaced by Hurricane Katrina -- but there's no coordinating agency to match displaced people with the good Samaritans.

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/4926511/detail.html


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9163307/

I didn't hear anything about camps or whatnot here yet.

[preciousdove]

20. Massachusetts -- post here

[preciousdove]

21. Cape Cod, Camp Edwards 2,500

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/09/05/cape_cods_camp_edwards_prepares_for_influx_of_katrina_refugees?mode=PF

BOURNE, Mass. --Camp Edwards on Cape Cod is in an unprecedented state of transition this week.

Just as more than 500 Massachusetts National Guard troops depart the nearby Otis Air National Guard Base to help with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, about 2,500 refugees from the Gulf Coast are about to take their place at Camp Edwards.

Military officials are calling them "guests," not evacuees or refugees, and promise to make them feel as welcome as possible at what could be their home for many months.

[preciousdove]

22. Michigan -- post here

[preciousdove]

59. Battle Creek, Ft Custer, ~10,000

http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw120811_20050905.htm

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) -- About 285 evacuees from the New Orleans area left homeless by Hurricane Katrina landed more than 1,000 miles away at a Michigan Air National Guard base on Monday.

Officials bused the homeless men, women and children two miles down the road to the nearby Fort Custer Training Center. They are expected to stay there for a week or less before they are moved to housing lasting three-to-nine months across the state.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm has said the state is equipped to accept up to 10,000 people evacuated from the Gulf region because of Hurricane Katrina.

[preciousdove]

186. List of Katrina evacuees to Grand Rapids has been reduced

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3819630&nav=0RceeFzN

Grand Rapids, September 7, 2005, 6:30 p.m.) The massive group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees the city of Grand Rapids has been preparing for won't be as big as once thought

In response, Governor Jennifer Granholm has told Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell that only 150 evacuees at the Fort Custer Training Center in Augusta will need housing assistance in his city. The rest only need transportation.

[preciousdove]

23. Minnesota -- post here

[preciousdove]

24. Brainard, Camp Ripley, 3,000

http://www.startribune.com/dynamic/story.php?template=print_a&story=5598013

Joshua Freed, Associated Press
September 5, 2005 KAT0906.MINN

The state prepared for up to 3,000 Hurricane Katrina refugees today without knowing when they might arrive, or how.

They'll be housed at Camp Ripley, a National Guard post near Brainerd.

Department of Public Safety spokesman Kevin Smith said the state could take more refugees if the Federal Emergency Management Agency asks.

Once they arrive, refugees will get medical and mental health services along with food and shelter. They'll be housed in 20 dormitories that have 184 beds each.

[KitchenWitch]

26. Minnesota's Camp Ripley in line for 3,000 evacuees

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5595500.html

(use http://www.bugmenot.com to get username and password)

As early as this week, Minnesota will put out the welcome mat for 3,000 Gulf Coast region residents who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina. And it looks like they'll be here long enough to need caps and gloves.

As part of a national plan developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to find long-term quarters for evacuees, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Saturday that within the next two weeks Minnesota will house hurricane victims temporarily at Camp Ripley, a National Guard training facility in central Minnesota near Little Falls. From there, they will be moved to cities and towns around the state that can provide long-term accommodations, perhaps in private homes or vacant apartments.

Pawlenty fully expects that some of the displaced people will stay in Minnesota -- even though it is on the opposite, and chillier, end of the Mississippi River from where most of them live. He hopes that some may even bolster communities with sagging populations and stunted job growth.
Kelly, Shellito, Pawlenty
Tom Sweeney
Star Tribune

"We know when people come to Minnesota, they like it," he said.

[dflprincess]

132. Bird Island, MN

I heard on the evening news that about 80 families will be moved to Bird Island and the surrounding area. BI is in Renville County about 80 miles west of the Twin Cities on Hwy 212. Apparently the former convent at St. Mary's church will used for some people.

God bless the people out that way for welcoming the evacuees, but winters out that way are still pretty harsh (if schools are being closed you always hear the towns along 212 mentioned) and I do wonder how the evacuees will cope with that on top of everything else they've been through. It just seems that it will emphasize how far away from home they are.

[preciousdove]

189. Evacuees may stay in South

http://startribune.com/stories/125/5602059.html
Conrad Defiebre, Star Tribune
September 8, 2005

Thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina who had been expected to take refuge in Minnesota may not come in large numbers at all, state officials said Wednesday.

"There are no flights scheduled to Minnesota today or tomorrow, but that's all we know," said Kevin Smith, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety. "This might take a little longer to play out as more personal decisions get made."

[preciousdove]

204. Katrina evacuees might start arriving Tuesday

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/12591496.htm
Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS - It now looks like it may be Tuesday before masses of Hurricane Katrina evacuees start arriving in Minnesota...

Smith says it looks like Minnesota could get 500 evacuees at a time. He says they might go back in a couple of weeks, once the floodwaters go away.

Minnesota has agreed to house up to three-thousand displaced storm victims. They initially would stay at Camp Ripley near Little Falls.

Information from: WCCO-AM, Minneapolis, http://www.wccoradio.com

[preciousdove]

25. Mississippi -- post here

[preciousdove]

70. Meriden and Jackson, MS 2,000 special needs health patients

http://www.southernstandard.net/news.ez?viewStory=20455

About 2,000 special needs health patients en route to the city Thursday were diverted to military facilities in Meridian, Miss., and Jackson, Miss., because of fuel shortages.

[preciousdove]

87. Bay St Louis, Mobile Hospital, 113 beds

http://www.wral.com/apncnews/4938034/detail.html

Mobile Hospital Ensnared In Red Tape Now Treating Patients

Now the futuristic $1.5 million emergency response hospital is getting its first real tryout since the Department of Homeland Security established it. The 113-bed hospital travels in a convoy that includes two 53-foot trailers. Equipment includes ultrasound, digital radiology, satellite Internet, and a full pharmacy, enabling doctors to do most types of surgery

[preciousdove]

88. Gulf Coast Open RC Shelters

Posted on Tue, Aug. 30, 2005






Open Red Cross shelters

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/hurricane_katrina/12517618.htm

Posted on Tue, Aug. 30, 2005

The following Red Cross shelters are open:

Bel-Air Elementary in Orange Grove.
Gulfport Central Elementary.
Harrison Central Elementary.
Lizana Elementary.
North Bay Elementary on Popps Ferry Road.
North Woolmarket Elementary on Mississippi 67.
Orange Grove Elementary on Old U.S. 49.
Saucier Elementary on First Street.
Three Rivers Elementary.
West Wortham Elementary on Worth Road.
Hancock North Central on Cuevas Town Road.
First Baptist Church of Picayune on Goodyear Boulevard.
Roseland Park School in Picayune.
Poplarville Middle School.
First Baptist Church of Poplarville

[preciousdove]

89. Lafayette, Cajundome, 8,500

http://www.acadiananow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050904/NEWS05/50904015

Lafayette is housing 8,500 people in its Cajundome, and Durel said he expects the city’s population of 112,000 to increase by about a third in what he called a spate of “unnatural growth” that will affect all branches of life and government.

[preciousdove]

167. Boloxi, neighbors helping neigbors

http://www.neshobademocrat.com/Main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=297&ArticleID=11102

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Picking up pieces in land laid bare

By M.S. ENKOJI
The Sacramento Bee

...He strapped a tool belt around his shorts Friday in a corner of the casino’s parking lot. There, he and other employees set up a chow line for the 1,000 employees, and anyone else in Biloxi who needed food...

[preciousdove]

218. Meridian Residents, Evacuees Fed Up With FEMA

http://www.wtok.com/news/headlines/1830572.html

Meridian, Miss.
Wade Phillips

The last week and a half has been the hardest of Jeff Garcia's life. Forced from his home in Slidell, La., last Monday after floodwaters went over his house, he has been here in Meridian since.

Garcia said he stayed in a hotel with his daughter and grandson until he ran out of money. Now he's looking for help from the federal government.

FEMA is giving out $2,000 debit cards to storm evacuees, but those cards haven't made it to Meridian yet. FEMA is also supposed to be opening an office in Meridian to help victims, but it hasn't happened yet.

And those who have tried to call FEMA's toll free number say all they get is a busy signal....

[preciousdove]

219. Pearlington desperate for help

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=161x605

CC (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-10-05 04:05 PM
Original message
Pearlington desperate for help
A representative of Vets and Pets of Central Florida arrived in Pearlington, MS to give them a tractor-trailer load of supplies and join Dr. Ann Scholl of Chickasaw Animal Hospital, Orlando, FL. who is there at the request of the Pontchartrain Humane Society to set up a vet clinic. His name is Marc Marchetti and he plans to stay and help because the people in Pearlington are desperate. There aren't any Red Cross, Salvation Army or any other centers there. Most of the people there have no transportation because everything is gone because of Katrina. They need everything--food, clothing, medicine, volunteers, etc. The National Guard (units from MS, AL and TN), the Army and the Army Corps of Engineers are there and doing all they can, but they don't have the supplies. If you know people who can help, they need it.

The Humane Society contacts are, President Sam Bailey cell 504-343-0175 or 985-892-8750, vice president, Kendra cell 985 246 9388 and 985 246 9377 or non-cell 985-892-8750. Marc's number is 321-229-9976.

[preciousdove]

222. Media blast needed for the citizens of Moss Point, Mississippi!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4713070&mesg_id=4713070

[preciousdove]

27. Missouri -- post here

[preciousdove]

80. Cape Giradeau and other rural MO areas 1000

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2005/09/0349.xml

Cape Girardeau is one of several Missouri communities where evacuees are being taken for temporary resettlement. So far, USDA Rural Development has identified at least 1,000 vacant housing units in Missouri that are available to house displaced residents.

[preciousdove]

81. St Louis & Kansas City (MO) 2000+

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12564087.htm

Mayor Kay Barnes paid a visit Sunday to the temporary refugee-processing center that has welcomed to Kansas City more than 100 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

D.A. Christian, the city’s emergency management director, estimates that 500 more people will head this way in the coming week, the spillover from 2,000 hurricane victims who sought refuge in St. Louis. Barnes said the information Kansas City was receiving on those numbers was in flux.

“The responsibility that we have at this point is to be prepared for whatever may occur,” she said.

Christian said the city had backup plans to handle refugees in 250-person increments beyond his estimate of 500.

[AllegroRondo]

96. St Louis "Storm Refugees Housed in Old Jail"

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/F86AD8FF1EA488AE86257070005286FF?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22hurricane%22

[preciousdove]

177. St Louis, Days Inn

http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=84398
Local Doctors Aid Katrina Victims
created: 9/7/2005 9:55:08 PM
updated: 9/7/2005 10:12:06 PM

Kelly Jackson
By Kelly Jackson
KSDK

There are doctors from our area who have left to help the hurricane victims. But, many doctors who stayed here are also doing their part by treating survivors as they arrive in the Saint Louis area.

The Days Inn in North County is the temporary home to about 45 families who fled New Orleans.

Dr. John Morley of Saint Louis University Hospital says, "Most of the people are very dazed. A few are frankly depressed...

[HeeBGBz]

225. Branson

Motels offering free rooms for victims. I'll post more info later when I can find specifics.

[preciousdove]

28. Montana -- post here

[preciousdove]

29. Nebraska -- post here

[preciousdove]

99. Nebraska -- post here (instead of OP)

[preciousdove]

130. Omaha, Civic Auditorium

http://www.kfab.com/cc-common/feeds/view.php?feed_id=255&feed=/main.html&instance=1&article_id=28957

Omaha Still Vague About Evacuees
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 1:31pm

Omaha mayor Mike Fahey says Omaha could receive evacuees today, tomorrow or never.

Judy Peschio, with the American Red Cross says they're ready to meet the immediate needs of the evacuees at the Civic Auditorium. They would then work to get them into transitional housing and finally into a more permanent arrangement.

[preciousdove]

194. Nebraska won't be getting evacuees any time soon

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/09/08/local/doc431f1c31c3a7e870447255.txt
By SCOTT BAUER / The Associated Press

At least for now, Nebraska shelters will not be called upon to house evacuees from areas hard hit by Hurricane Katrina. Nebraska and other secondary relocation spots were put on standby Wednesday by the federal government, meaning they may be called upon later or they may never be used.

“I suspect the situation is going to change hour by hour, day by day,” said Gov. Dave Heineman, shortly after informing the mayors of Omaha and Lincoln and other state emergency officials of the decision...

[preciousdove]

100. Nevada - post here

[preciousdove]

101. Las Vegas 500, Hurrah's 150

http://www.klastv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3811824&nav=168YeBfi

Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina are expected to start arriving in Clark County before the end of the week.

Clark County is notifying federal and state officials that the Las Vegas community is prepared to accept 500 evacuees.

Clark County is working with representatives from the American Red Cross, United Way of Southern Nevada, Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada and other nonprofits to set up a plan for receiving evacuees, assessing their needs, meeting those needs and placing them in housing for three to six months.

Harrah's has contributed 150 rooms that can be used by evacuees. "Our employees and our customers have been hit hard by Katrina and we want to do all that we can to help them through this terribly difficult ordeal," said Tom Jenkin, vice president of the Western division of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.

[preciousdove]

111. Reno-Sparks NSHHS 100, NNG, Stead, Reg Training Istitute 200

News 4 Local News
http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3812092&nav=8faOeBpl

RENO
Hundreds of Gulf Coast evacuees coming to northern Nevada
Sep 6, 2005, 01:54 PM



Nevada is gearing up to accept the first 800 of what officials say could be thousands of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn says plans for Operation Open Arms call for commercial aircraft to fly 300 evacuees to northern Nevada and 500 more to southern Nevada.

Guinn says at least 100 will be housed at Nevada State Department of Health and Human Services facilities in the Reno-Sparks area, and 200 at the Army National Guard's Regional Training Institute in Stead.

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159. Plans to house hurricane evacuees in Nevada put on hold

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/sep/07/090710103.html
Today: September 07, 2005 at 18:48:32 PDT
By KEN RITTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Plans for Nevada to receive Gulf Coast hurricane evacuees were suspended Wednesday while federal officials reassessed how many - if any - will be sent, the state's top emergency manager said.

"We're on a list to receive 800 individuals," said Frank Siracusa, state Emergency Management Administrator. "We may get 800. We may get none."

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30. New Hampshire - post here

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105. Pease International Tradeport's Air National Guard base, ~500

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050906/NEWS0202/109060099

PORTSMOUTH — New Hampshire has offered to host 500 Hurricane Katrina evacuees, Gov. John Lynch announced on Monday.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency asked New Hampshire to consider hosting the evacuees this weekend.

The goal is to keep the evacuees together and eventually move them to dormitory-type housing, said Pamela Walsh, Lynch's spokeswoman.

"We are in the process of finalizing that," she said.

The evacuees will arrive at Pease International Tradeport's Air National Guard base. The state is working with FEMA to coordinate an arrival date. FEMA has said the evacuees may need up to six months of housing.

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31. New Jersey - post here

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123. Perth Amboy PH, 100, Delaney Housing project ~400

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--katrinaevacuees-n0906sep06,0,7175749.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey

First hurricane evacuees arriving in NJ

By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press Writer

September 6, 2005, 4:58 PM EDT

NEWARK, N.J. -- The first New Jersey-bound evacuees from Hurricane Katrina have begun arriving here, including nearly 30 members of an extended family with a boy who spent his 11th birthday in a hospital emergency room on Tuesday.

One hundred more families were expected soon, bound for temporary quarters in a Perth Amboy housing complex....

Thwarted in its efforts to build a new high school when money from the state construction fund ran out, Perth Amboy is offering to house 100 families at a former public housing complex that had been slated for demolition to make way for the new school.

The city got approval Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to use the recently vacated Delaney Homes to put up between 200 to 400 people who fled the storm.

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32. New Mexico - post here

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71. Albuquerque Convention Center 1000+

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/387253nm09-05-05.htm

NEW MEXICO: Up to 6,000 hurricane victims may find shelter in New Mexico. Gov. Bill Richardson said the first 1,000 evacuees will be housed at the Albuquerque Convention Center

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160. Update: 50 refugees housed

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-07205556.apds.m0895.bc-ct--katrsep07,0,4024106.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire

For hurricane evacuees, home is wherever there's an open door
Associated Press

Published September 7 2005

By NOREEN GILLESPIE

Associated Press Writer

The Albuquerque Convention Center has hosted the National Congress of Computational Mechanics, the New Mexico Dental Association - and now, Bernell Haney.

Haney used to live in New Orleans. For now, he's among about 50 refugees housed amid the center's 600,000 square feet of meeting rooms and exhibition halls, a shelter that had been readied for as many as 1,000 evacuees.

Around the country - in a former aircraft hangar, military bases, church basements, abandoned buildings, state campgrounds - government and private groups are finding all kinds of places to house Katrina's refugees.

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33. New York - post here

[Cooley Hurd]

91. I heard on CNN this morning that citizens of Cambridge, NY...

...are offering shelter to Katrina victims, but were presently having trouble with FEMA approval (due to red tape). I've been searching for a link, but have been unsuccessful so far. Will update as soon as I find out more...:thumbsup:

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34. North Carolina - post here

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61. Charlotte Coliseum 500 & Raleigh Office Building 1500

http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3809081

Two planes carrying a combined 260 refugees from New Orleans arrived a couple hours apart Monday night at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. They were taken to a vacant office complex that has been converted into a temporary shelter.

Medical, social services, and other workers are there to assess the refugees and help them adjust to their new dwelling.

Officials in Raleigh say up to 15-hundred refugees could be sent there

In Charlotte, evacuees are being housed at the Charlotte Coliseum, where the American Red Cross is prepared to handle up to 500 people.

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98. Raleigh, NC

http://www.wral.com/news/4933412/detail.html

Triangle Welcomes Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Evacuees Get Warm Meal, Place To Stay

POSTED: 7:04 pm EDT September 3, 2005
UPDATED: 8:00 am EDT September 6, 2005

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Wake County officials said hundreds of evacuees from the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast have arrived in Raleigh.

After they were flown into Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the evacuees were transported to the Wake County Hurricane Disaster Victim Center, which is located near the N.C. State Fairgrounds.

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181. Greensboro NC

has 85 right now but expects more.

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"After their first full day in Raleigh, nearly 400 survivors of Hurricane Katrina . . .

. . . in Charlotte, where more than 800 evacuees are seeking refuge, and Greensboro with 85 and more expected. In all, about 1,700 storm survivors are expected in North Carolina."

http://www.wral.com/news/4944481/detail.html

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35. North Dakota - post here

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120. Devil's Lake, Camp Grafton 200, Fargo Air National Guard base 100

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/09/06/news/update/doc431dcc5dbf5e8539596699.txt

State making plans to take in hurricane refugees
By the Associated Press
12:05 p.m. - BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State officials are making plans to house hundreds of Hurricane Katrina refugees in North Dakota, though Gov. John Hoeven says no official request has come from the Gulf Coast.

The North Dakota National Guard's Camp Grafton near Devils Lake could house up to 200 refugees and the Air National Guard base in Fargo another 100, Hoeven said Tuesday.

The military bases would serve as staging areas for the refugees, who eventually would be sheltered around the state in housing controlled by the Division of Community Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development agency.

``We (have) identified about 2,000 living units around the state,'' Hoeven said.

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36. Ohio - post here

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82. Columbus 300, Cincinnati & Cleveland hundreds, Akron 100

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/12567218.htm

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Hundreds of refugees from Hurricane Katrina are expected to arrive in Ohio cities later this week, officials said Monday.

Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland are planning for an undetermined number of refugees, tentatively scheduled to arrive in plane loads on Thursday, Columbus Red Cross spokeswoman Lynn Cook said.

Akron is expecting about 100 refugees to arrive in the next few days after a request from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said David Lieberth, chief of staff for Mayor Don Plusquellic.

Franklin County officials have been asked to prepare a staging area for 300 refugees in Columbus, and city officials are helping the Red Cross to coordinate housing.

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187. Ohio not getting Katrina evacuees, for now

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/12581342.htm

CONNIE MABIN
Associated Press

CLEVELAND - About 1,000 Hurricane Katrina victims who were supposed to be sent to Ohio are no longer coming to the state - at least for now, the Ohio Emergency Management Agency told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

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201. Columbus still got the first 300

The other 1,000 are not coming because "it is too far away from their friends and family"

And Utah is closer?

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37. Oklahoma -- post here

[OKNancy]

73. Two locations and private homes

The first large group arrived Saturday at Fort Gruber, a National Guard facility near Muskogee, said Jerry Lojka, spokesman for the Oklahoma Emergency Management Department. About 1,500 evacuees are housed there now, and about 3,500 more were expected Monday at Falls Creek, a camp near Davis.
http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/05/431d0f56027a0




In addition to the state-run efforts, some Norman and Oklahoma City religious organizations and private groups opened their doors to evacuees this weekend, and more moved into homes, apartments and hotels in the area.

University of Oklahoma volunteer website:
http://www.ou.edu/volunteer/disaster.htm


Michelann Ooten, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management, said The Salvation Army will provide clothing and the Oklahoma Veterinarian Association and the Oklahoma City Animal Shelter will provide housing for any animals that accompany the evacuees.

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106. Davis, Falls Creek Christian youth camp ~3,000

Story last updated at 1:37 AM on September 6, 2005
http://ardmoreite.com/stories/090605/loc_0906050009.shtml

Volunteers prepare Falls Creek for evacuees
By Marsha Miller
News Editor
DAVIS -- Traffic backed up Monday as people anxious to volunteer their services to Hurricane Katrina evacuees jammed the road into Falls Creek.

But what volunteers found was except for others making final preparations the Christian youth camp was empty. Officials said the bus loads of evacuees had been detained in Texas. No official word was available on when the estimated 3,000 New Orleans residents would arrive.

Falls Creek is the second large shelter opened in the state. Over the weekend more than 1,400 refugees arrived at Camp Gruber, a national guard training camp located in the northeast part of the state. Smaller groups have been assisted by The Salvation Army in the Lawton, Oklahoma City, Enid, Shawnee and Norman areas. The Red Cross is supervising a service center at Tulsa and providing relief efforts in Oklahoma City and Altus as well.

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136. Eyewitness Account of Falls Creek Camp

I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html

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221. update on OK FEMA camp at Falls Creek ...9-6 'on hold'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4729692

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192. Evacuees prefer regional displacement;

http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/07/431fb1c9e3224

by Richard Green (AP)
September 07, 2005

OKLAHOMA CITY — Plans to transfer Hurricane Katrina evacuees from Texas to other states including Oklahoma have been put on hold because many of these people do not want to leave, an Oklahoma official said Wednesday.

States have been notified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency not to expect additional evacuees to be transferred from Texas because many “prefer to remain in the region as they resolve issues concerning the status of property, employment, and the safety of loved ones,” said Michelann Ooten, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.

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38. Oregon -- post here

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57. location not given, 1000

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1125793440270340.xml&storylist=orlocal

Kulongoski makes arrangements for Katrina refugees
9/3/2005, 5:18 p.m. PT
The Associated Press


SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Ted Kulongoski is making arrangements to accommodate around 1,000 refugees from the Gulf States.

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119. Portland, Washington-Monroe High School ~1000

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1126022340211270.xml&storylist=orlocal

Authorities not sure when Katrina victims will arrive
9/6/2005, 11:10 a.m. PT
The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — It's been four days since Oregon agreed to open its arms to as many as 1,000 of Hurricane Katrina's victims. But officials here still don't know when they will arrive — and even if they will arrive at all.

"It's safe to say they could arrive by Wednesday. They could. But we just don't know. We've been given no date or time," said Holly Armstrong, a spokeswoman for Gov. Ted Kulongoski.

On Friday, state officials said Katrina victims would be arriving within the next 24 to 48 hours. On Monday, Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed an agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to accept evacuees and to receive federal funding for their care.

Red Cross officials in Oregon said they were planning to provide food and shelter to evacuees for as long as six months. Hundreds of cots have been laid out in the gymnasium of Portland's Washington-Monroe High School in preparation for the influx of storm victims.

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157. Pendelton, Red Cross volunteers prepare to aid refugees

http://www.eastoregonian.info/Main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=350&ArticleID=43436
Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Red Cross volunteers prepare to aid refugees

By KATHY ANEY of the East Oregonian
[e-mail]

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191. Oregon assistance not needed so quickly, federal officials say

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1126090630195010.xml&coll=7
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
MICHELLE COLE and DAVID AUSTIN

Federal officials notified Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Tuesday evening that Hurricane Katrina evacuees won't be arriving in Oregon immediately "due to changing circumstances in the Gulf Coast region." But state and local officials were advised to remain prepared to offer shelter as needed.

Word reached the governor after 8:30 p.m. and after Oregon added a second shelter in Oregon City to accommodate as many as 1,000 survivors of the storm and flood. There was some question late Tuesday about whether evacuees would come to Oregon at all. State emergency management officials have planned a news conference at 10 a.m. today after a scheduled call with the Federal Emergency Management Agency..

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208. Oregon now expects 500 Katrina evacuees on Saturday

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_090805_news_katrina_500.3a185737.html

12:22 PM PDT on Thursday, September 8, 2005

By kgw.com and AP Staff

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski said Thursday that federal officials have asked him to be ready for the possible arrival of about 500 victims from the devastated Gulf states on Saturday...

...The governor received a call Thursday morning from the Federal Emergency Management Agency designating Oregon as a "receiving state" and asking for preparations to remain in place for the potential arrival of hurricane victims on Saturday, spokeswoman Hollie Armstrong said....

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39. Pennsylvania - post here

[Barack_America]

90. Philadelphia to host 1,000 families

Evacuees are welcome in Philly!

Please see the official site for more details.
http://www.phila.gov/katrina/

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129. Philadelphia, John Wanamaker Middle School, 600

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05249/566263.stm

First Katrina refugees expected in Allegheny County this week
Philadelphia schools ready to accept Katrina survivors today
Tuesday, September 06, 2005

By Kathy Matheson, The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA -- When classes begin today in the Philadelphia School District, there won't be any students at the closed John Wanamaker Middle School.

But city officials expect the building to be abuzz with activity as they begin using it as an intake center and temporary housing facility for an estimated 150 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

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172. First wave of Katrina survivors arrive in Philadelphia

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15172498&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6

By KATHY MATHESON, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press September 07, 2005

About three dozen people forced from their homes by Hurricane Katrina arrived here by airplane Wednesday, the first _ and perhaps only _ wave of survivors who will be indefinitely housed and schooled in the city in the storm's aftermath. --

The evacuees from New Orleans landed at Philadelphia International Airport's old overseas terminal around noon, a day after the city had expected a much larger group from Texas that ended up not coming.

Officials said the contingent of displaced men, women and children included people who had been rescued from their flooded homes within the previous 24 hours, as well as two men who stayed in New Orleans for more than a week after the storm to help rescue their neighbors.

The evacuees did not know they were bound for Pennsylvania until they boarded the plane, according to evacuees and city officials.

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40. Rhode Island - post here

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112. Middletown, Navy Station Newport , 500

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BOS4848/
Channel 7 TV News

Rhode Island to accept 500 hurricane victims

CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island will take in 500 victims of Hurricane Katrina, Gov. Don Carcieri said Tuesday.

Carcieri said he did not know when the refugees would arrive from Houston, but it could be as soon as Tuesday afternoon. They will arrive at Quonset Air National Guard Base in North Kingstown, where they will be fed and issued ID cards, Carcieri said.

From there, they will go to Middletown, where they will be housed in an empty Navy facility adjacent to Naval Station Newport, Navy spokesman David Sanders said.

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196. Plans put on hold to bring evacuees to Rhode Island

http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20050908_mnevac8.317046f.html
subscription

Providence Journal (subscription), RI - 1 hour ago
... yesterday morning that plans to move Hurricane Katrina's homeless to other parts of the country had been put on hold. "We were told that many evacuees . . . ...

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41. South Carolina - post here

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122. Various communities, unknown numbers, no state response 9/2

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/12546667.htm

Posted on Fri, Sep. 02, 2005
South Carolina welcomes hurricane refugees

JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolinians are opening their buildings, big and small, to refugees from Hurricane Katrina.

Across the state, public and private groups tried to find places to house some of the millions of people displaced when the massive storm came ashore along the Gulf Coast on Monday.

As of Friday afternoon, state government had not formed any plans to house evacuees, but local governments and private groups were offering their help.

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176. Columbia, 25 from NOLA

http://www.wcnc.com/news/southcarolina/stories/wcnc-090705-jr-al-katrina_columbia.350d8d86.html

Katrina evacuees arrive in Columbia

10:35 PM EDT on Wednesday, September 7, 2005
By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER
Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Ronnie Hebert didn't know where she was headed when she was offered a flight out of New Orleans on Wednesday along with 25 other evacuees from Hurricane Katrina...

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42. South Dakota - post here

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62. Sioux Falls Armory 100, Rapid City & Yankton 1000

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050906/NEWS/509060311/1001/NEWS

Evacuees allowed to visit homes
S.D. agencies aid hurricane survivors

MEGAN MYERS
[e-mail]
Published: 09/6/05

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229. Rapid City;Evacuees coming to my city's shelters tonight...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4737093

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43. Tennessee - post here

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68. Knoxville ~8,000 coming

http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3809051&nav=4QcHeAAl

Knoxville could see as many as 8,000 evacuees. Memphis already has 15,000 from Katrina.

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69. Memphis, Mid South Colesium ~15,000

http://www.southernstandard.net/news.ez?viewStory=20455

Tennessee News
Tennessee's relief efforts take shape in Memphis

MEMPHIS (AP) — With more than 10,000 evacuees, a team of engineers and even a relocated college football team, the next major city on the Mississippi River up from New Orleans is at the center of Tennessee's relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Katrina

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147. Knoxville & Chattanooga 270 (Al Gore's Fastercures medical airlift)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4685764

AlGore-08.com (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-05 06:09 PM
Original message
The Fastercures Airlift From New Orleans (Al Gore at NOLA)
http://www.algore.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=78

From TMP Cafe
by Greg Simon, President FasterCures

On September 3rd and 4th, FasterCures worked with a small dedicated group of people to airlift approximately 270 medical patients and evacuees from the New Orleans airport to hospitals and shelters in Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee. This is the story of how it happened.

On Thursday, September 1st, my friend Jill Chozen of San Francisco called to ask if I could put someone in touch with Al Gore. Dr. David Kline, the father in law of Jill’s friend Denise Kline, was stranded in Charity hospital in New Orleans. The situation was dire and becoming worse by the minute – food and water running out, no power, four feet of water surrounding the hospital and alligators eating corpses outside. David is a neurosurgeon and needed to take his patients out of the hospital as soon as possible. David asked Denise to find Al Gore for help because David knew Gore from operating on Gore’s son after a life threatening auto accident nearly 16 years ago.

I emailed Gore with Denise Kline’s number after speaking to Jill and got an answer immediately. Gore had phoned David in the hospital several times and ascertained that he was now on the way to an Apache Helicopter landing site with his patients. Things were looking up.

The next day, Friday September 2nd, I heard an NPR story that things were getting worse at Charity hospital – they were actually taking in more patients because the other nearby hospital –Tulane—was closed. When I arrived at work, I knew what we had to do –we had to evacuate medical patients from Charity to safety.

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209. UPDATED: Confusion exists over Knoxville arrival of Katrina evacuees

http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=28455&provider=rss

On Thursday, a lot of confusion swirls around the question of whether Knoxville will or will not be getting a planeload of Katrina evacuees from the Gulf area.

Thursday morning, federal officials told city and county leaders that no organized groups of evacuees would be coming to Knoxville Thursday, Friday or possibly, at all.

But later in the morning, state officials said a private plane of 60 evacuees from Baton Rouge would indeed be landing in Knoxville...

The hundreds of hurricane evacuees who were supposed to arrive in Knoxville didn't make it.

Four planes were scheduled to leave Dallas, pick up 550 evacuees in Louisiana and bring them here.

City and County representatives say FEMA is blaming a "logistics" problem at the Louisiana airport.

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44. Texas -- post here (and thank you)

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92. Evacuee transfer in Texas on hold (by FEDS) 230,000+

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/090705dntexkatrinaairlift.2e961580.html

07:37 AM CDT on Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Associated Press

AUSTIN - While the airlift of Hurricane Katrina refugees out of Texas appeared to be on hold, plans to move some to cruise ships in Galveston have also been postponed.

Then federal authorities took over the operation (Unified Command) and by Monday planes still weren't taking off. At the same time, for the first time in days, there were no buses or planes in the official evacuation effort carrying evacuees into Texas, the governor's office said.

It was unclear when any flights might actually leave.

FMEA says: Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Dean Cushman said Monday, "We are not coordinating it as of right now."

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/387253nm09-05-05.htm
TEXAS: More than 230,000 evacuees are already in Texas. Gov. Rick Perry on Sunday ordered emergency officials to initiate an airlift to take some of them to other states that have offered help.

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95. Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock will be hosting about 1200 evacuees (so far)

Approximately 1,000 will be housed at former Reese AFB, about 12 miles west of the city.


The other 200 are staying in some sort of medical facility in town. Not sure where.

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185. 400 came in over the weekend to Reese

there is some confusion about whether or not the rest scheduled to arrive will come.

BTW, Reese is out in the middle of nowhere. The closing of the base left the area around it pretty well deserted. And, here's the fun part...vacancies of rentals are so high there are deals galore on free month with a lease, other complexes are *suddenly* taking pets (who didn't before) and the mayor is the biggest real estate company owner in town. But, apparently part of a closed AFB is the best that can be done...

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134. Houston Katrina evacuees by the numbers Wed Sep-07-05 08:08 AM by PDittie

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=180x19616

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144. Update from Houston

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2070412

... FEMA thinks it will take up to 10 days or longer to get these people any money or housing vouchers. FEMA is just completely fucked. These people need money and housing now not a fucking month from now.

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150. Houston 150,000 (Sept 6)

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3340927

Sept. 6, 2005, 6:13AM

WHAT'S NEXT
Victims looking for a home could change face of city
By DAN FELDSTEIN
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Campbell/Chronicle
Mayor Bill White holds a press conference at the George R Brown Convention Center following a "Mayor's Community Meeting" which brought together city, county, state, and Federal officials.

Hurricane Katrina changed the lives of New Orleans residents forever. What is beginning to dawn on Houston officials is that this city also will change in ways that no one can predict.

From doctors and architects to retirees and gang members, more than 150,000 Louisiana residents have landed on this city's doorstep. Some will be here for days and months, but many will simply stay.

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163. Houston taking most of New Orleans Jewish community in mass exodus;

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11362

...In New Orleans, in vans and boats, teams under the auspices of the local Jewish federation searched homes and apartment buildings for missing members of the Jewish community. The effort, coordinated with Baton Rouge’s federation, included sheriff’s deputies from East Baton Rouge.

By midweek, they had found and rescued at least 30 people, according to Adam Bronstone, the New Orleans federation’s director of community relations.

“We’re becoming a missing person’s bureau,” he said, speculating that perhaps 50 more members of the Jewish community are unaccounted for....

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199. Lock Down Mode at the Astrodome Reliant Center; No one in or out

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1763494#1763521

seemslikeadream (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-08-05 09:41 AM
Original message
Lock Down Mode at the Astrodome Reliant Center
Edited on Thu Sep-08-05 09:41 AM by seemslikeadream

CNN

No one in or out

This is where they are giving out the debit cards

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138. Psychologist Report from Reunion and Civic Center

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4683757

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141. Blogger site at Supper Dome, Only "media" inside according to BBC

snot (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-05 03:11 PM
Original message
Katrina Media Being Excluded, Controlled by Feds
Edited on Wed Sep-07-05 03:11 PM by snot

From http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/07/katrina_geek_dispa... :

Wednesday, September 7, 2005

Katrina: Geek dispatch from inside Houston Astrodome
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/07/katrina_geek_dispatc.html
BB pal Jacob Appelbaum is following Katrina aftermath in the affected area with Joel Johnson <http://joeljohnson.com/ > . Jacob's maintaining a travelblog <http://jacob.wordpress.com/ > and a regularly updated photostream <http://flickr.com/photos/ioerror/ > . Snip from today's posts:

The BBC just called me. I am the only media inside the dome. We did a long interview and it’s going to be broadcast on Friday at 13:00 on their live webcast.
The media censorship here runs high. It was not easy to actually enter the dome as media. I am working with the group ‘Austin Airwaves’ and our badge says ‘PRESS’ in huge white letters on a red background. This has caused unending red tape. I have been the subject of removal a few times, bordering on a dozen. My camera draws the most fire.
I just heard we have the go ahead to put up the transmittter. I have no idea if that means we can broadcast or not. I assume it does because we have the FCC permits. The main issue here seems to be a total lack of leadership. No one with FEMA seems to know who their boss is. No one with the RedCross has authority. Everyone working for the owners (Reliant energy) of the dome is getting in our way. No photos. No entry. Attempted removal. Detainment.
The weather in Houston is hot and muggy. There is a great deal of police and military on the grounds.
As I said before, I’m the only person known to be in the dome according to the BBC. Their (Reliant staff) attempts to keep the media under control and out of the way also seem to keep the media from the most interesting spots. I have some really good photos and I will attempt to post them soon.
http://jacob.wordpress.com/2005/09/07/11/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4682934

[preciousdove]

152. Dallas, Wilmer-Hutchins School

Originally broadcast Dallas Channel 8 http://www.wfaa.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=180x19667

[preciousdove]

161. Leaving TX: Airline Tickets and bus rides offered

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8CFO8RG1.html

Refugees begin finding ways to leave shelters
09/08/2005

By SHEILA FLYNN / Associated Press

Leonard said he would like to have all three shelters at Reliant Park in Houston closed by a week from Sunday. He said, however, that refugees continue to arrive. About 900 new refugees arrived overnight Tuesday.

He said FEMA and other agencies are working on ways to get refugees where they want to go and into temporary housing. Continental Airlines set up a bank of computers on the Astrodome floor, where they offered refugees who wanted to relocate a free one-way ticket to anywhere in the continental U.S. To receive a ticket, the refugees had to show their pink bands that get them admittance into the shelter and provide their FEMA case number.

Yvette Herbert, one of the Astrodome's refugees, said that buses were leaving for cities all over the country Wednesday. Among them were Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit and numerous cities in California.

[preciousdove]

171. Houston, Pass Christian, MS evacuees sheltered

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15172735&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=532258&rfi=6

Survivors tell horror stories
By Roycelyn Bastian

Residents of Pass Christian, Mississippi, finally made their way to the North Channel area Sept. 2. The evacuees were brought to Vega's Grill for something to eat while volunteers were busy looking for clothes and shelter.

After Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi, residents in the Signature Lake Apartments found themselves without food, clothing, money or a place to stay, until one Channelview resident decided to take the initiative and traveled to Pass Christian...

I chartered two buses at $4,000 each to pick up the people in Mississippi and bring them here where they could receive help," Perez said...

"We don't know where they would go, because all of the shelters here are at its capacity, and we don't have any clothes for them. It was really nice to feed all of these people, because no one else wanted to do it," Rodriguez said.

Once the evacuees had food to eat, they were placed in shelters around the area, and some of them received money for bus fair to Mexico. One resident in the area, Dennis Lewis, decided to shelter some people at his place of business....

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179. Port Arthur, Ford Park Center 1,500 mentions 3000 in SE TX

http://www.panews.com/articles/2005/09/07/news/03news.txt

Thigpen playing vital role for evacuees
By Marilyn Tennissen -The News staff writer Posted: 09/07/05 - 09:38:56 pm CDT


...Thigpen is always busy serving the city of Port Arthur as director of Parks and Recreation and assistant director of Human Resources and working with the city's youth programs and countless community projects. Now he has put on a new hat, that of Finance Section Chief at Emergency Management Operations Ford Park Center.

In that role, Thigpen oversees the management of all material donations and inventory, inventory and cash management.

With more than 1,500 evacuees at Ford Park and another 3,000 in shelters throughout Southeast Texas, it may seem like a daunting task, but Thigpen and his staff of competent and experienced volunteers the process is becoming more streamlined each day....

[preciousdove]

182. Falls Creek, Texoma Conference Center, 0

http://www.kten.com/article.asp?id=10006

Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 10:07:53 PM
Evacuation Operations at Falls Creek on Hold

...Since Sunday, hundreds of volunteers have been making beds, preparing food and sorting thousands of donations, but now there is a chance the estimated 3,000 evacuees will not come.

“Well, there’s a lot of reasons for that and we don’t know all of those reasons,” said Sam Porter, Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief Director. “Some evacuees are at the Astrodome and they are still hoping against hope to go back home and maybe go back to their jobs, but truthfully, many of their homes and jobs are not there.”

Officials here are waiting for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to give Falls Creek what they call a "mission" before any evacuees can come...

All of Texoma’s donations will be sent to where hurricane victims who need them most.

Jocelyn Lockwood, KTEN news.

[preciousdove]

197. Men are still missing

wellstone_democrat (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-05 04:23 PM
Response to Original message
2. and remember who the force is aimed at

here where I am in Texas and everywhere else it is not for the safety of the residents in the shelters it is to keep them in. There are huge police presence, we can't get them to back off and the RC won't help us. If I hear the phrases "those people" or "these people" from one of them again I'm going to go nuts.

All we have here is people in another shelter with armed guards and endless offers of church services. We have 300 people and there were 4 services today with maybe 100 total attending. This upsets the other volunteers who say delightful things like "I thought black people were religious? Maybe that's only the ones who work..."

in-fucking-credible. I emailed with a vol from another state and its the same thing. Almost as many police/guards as residents. Like mine, her shelter is 90% women and children and old, old men. The families here are wondering where their men are and we can't find out.

nice. really nice. I'm off to serve dinner and help with the early evening stuff with kids so the mothers can have a break (which, btw, some vols don't think they need! try being without privacy, comfort or two moments to yourself entertaining a todler all day! Jeeeez)

bye

[preciousdove]

200. GALVESTON SHELTER NEEDS HELP

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4694718&mesg_id=4694718

...The church has been taking cash donations and purchasing their own debit cards to give to evacuees. I was told that the preacher cried last night as he was helping people, and that folks feel like Galveston has been forgotten. People are VERY frustrated with the Red Cross down here....

[preciousdove]

202. Texas Today: ~202,000 Partial Breakdown of numbers.

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl090705evacuees.36290e06.html

EVACUEES

-- Governor Rick Perry's office says approximately 97,000 refugees are in Texas shelters operated by the Red Cross, plus civic and faith-based groups. Another 105,000 people are in hotels and other locations, for a total of about 202,000 refugees.

HOUSTON

Astrodome: 2,930

Reliant Arena: 1,800

Reliant Center: 2,000

George R. Brown Convention Center: 1,366


DALLAS

Reunion Arena, 7,122

Convention Center, 9,825


SAN ANTONIO

Former Kelly Air Force Base and other shelters: 5,193

[preciousdove]

217. Many saying goodbye to area shelters

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-katcount_10met.ART.North.Edition2.dc9fcbc.html

12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, September 10, 2005
By JIM GETZ / The Dallas Morning News

Many of the thousands of hurricane evacuees whom Katrina scattered like seeds to the Dallas-Fort Worth area are taking root, growing new lives.

In the last week, thousands have moved from shelters and hotel rooms into apartments and homes across North Texas. They're living with relatives, while strangers and many cities have adopted families, and businesses and landlords have cut the red tape to place people.

As of Friday, about 10 percent of the 17,000 evacuees registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the American Red Cross were sleeping at Dallas' three main shelters: the Convention Center, Reunion Arena and Decker Justice Center. At their peak on Sunday night, the three shelters were holding 2,334 evacuees.

By Thursday night, that dropped to 1,889. If that rate holds steady, the shelters could be emptied in two weeks....

[preciousdove]

226. Emergency assistance arrives in . . . San Antonio? (OT bookmarking)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4735886

[preciousdove]

232. Evacuees are headed for housing as shelters may close

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/05/katrina/3347940

Sept. 10, 2005, 10:45PM
By ROBERT STANTON

...As of Friday, there were 1,659 evacuees at the George R. Brown Convention Center and 6,964 at the Reliant complex, for a total of 8,623, according to the Joint Information Center.

In contrast, a total of 11,400 hurricane victims were staying at the shelters three days earlier on Sept. 6, according to the JIC.

Another 2,321 evacuees were staying at 25 other Red Cross shelters in the Houston area as of Friday afternoon, said Russell Hubbard, spokesman for the Greater Houston Area American Red Cross....

Another 40,000 evacuees are in hotels, according to a census requested by local officials. The number of evacuees staying in private residences and private shelters was unknown...

[preciousdove]

45. Utah - post here

[preciousdove]

67. Bluffdale, Camp Williams, 300, SLC 150+

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600161120,00.html
Sunday, September 4, 2005
Airlift: For Katrina evacuees, Utah becomes a refuge from the storm

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/387253nm09-05-05.htm
UTAH: About 450 evacuees had arrived in Salt Lake City by Sunday.

[preciousdove]

168. State Wants To Teach Evacuees At Camp Williams

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_250194845.html

Sep 7, 2005 5:47 pm US/Mountain

RIVERTON, Utah The state has asked for a federal waiver so the 42 school-age children at Camp Williams can attend classes in a one-room-schoolhouse-type setting while remaining near their parents at the Utah Army National Guard base in suburban Salt Lake City....

We're hearing that many of them will be gone by Friday, but we'll continue to provide services whether there's one or 42,'' Colton said...

... Additionally, a job fair was scheduled for Thursday for refugees who might wish to remain in Utah, said homeless advocate Pamela Atkinson

[preciousdove]

135. Eyewittness Account of Camp Williams (warning heavily biased PD)

Refugees from New Orleans behind barbed wire in Utah

by Don Nash, Unknown News
Sept. 6, 2005

http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906CampWilliams.html

and Update

http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090908isitKiguchi.html

[unhappycamper]

198. Don Nash is a crackpot & should be completely ignored.

I had posted his Camp Williams story yesterday morning & THEN started researching this guy. (Duh!) I exchanged PMs with the MODS & we all came to the conclusion that anything Mr. Nash writes, posts, or thinks is pure horseshit.

I urge you to ignore anything this clown writes.

[preciousdove]

46. Vermont -- post here

[preciousdove]

47. Virginia - post here

[preciousdove]

118. Various homes, hundreds

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784884642

REFUGEES IN VA: Red Cross helps hundreds so far
Hundreds in Va. from La., Miss. In Richmond area, Red Cross has helped 91 Katrina survivors

BY OSITA IROEGBU AND REX BOWMAN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERS Sep 6, 2005

Hundreds of people leaving hurricane-devastated areas in Louisiana and Mississippi streamed into Virginia during the weekend.

[Catchawave]

165. Gov. Warner Press Release 9/7/05

http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Press_Policy/Releases/2005/Sep05/0907.htm

Virginia Efforts Continue to Assist in Hurricane Katrina Relief
— Virginians respond strongly with offers of assistance —
RICHMOND - Governor Mark R. Warner today provided the following updates on Virginia’s response to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in and from Virginia.

“Virginians have opened their hearts, wallets, and in many cases their homes to respond to the dramatic needs of the victims of Hurricane Katrina,” said Governor Warner. “The Commonwealth continues to inventory offers of assistance and prepare for evacuees. Secretary Chertoff told governors across the nation today that many of the homeless in the hurricane-affected areas and in shelters in Houston and elsewhere may not want to be moved again to new shelters elsewhere in the nation. But we stand ready to take them in.”

Preparations continue at Fort Pickett, the Virginia National Guard facility in Blackstone, to house 1,000 displaced people in a “one-stop shopping” service scenario with safe and semi-private housing, restroom and shower facilities, food service, health services, crisis counseling, and access to a series of government services that can help them start to rebuild their lives. Additionally, the nearby Virginia United Methodist Assembly Center in Blackstone is preparing to house an additional 400 people. Those two facilities may be the best intake facilities for new arrivals of displaced people, and other housing offers may take days or weeks to be used, if needed at all. The Red Cross and the state Emergency Operations Center continue to catalog specific housing offers for more than 3,000 displaced persons, and to notify FEMA and the affected states of their availability.

“Virginians may need to be patient with charitable organizations and government emergency workers while the affected states and federal government continue to sort through their needs,” said Governor Warner. “My Chief of Staff remains in Louisiana coordinating the state-to-state relief effort, and many Virginians are on the scene serving in the effort. Remember that the best way to help is still to donate money or time to your local chapter of the Red Cross, Salvation Army, or another recognized group participating in the relief effort. Disaster officials in those areas are still discouraging individuals from ‘self-deploying’ or from shipping food, water, clothing, and other donated items through private efforts.”

Any Virginian taking in a person or family displaced by Hurricane Katrina should contact their local Red Cross chapter for immediate assistance, and to access benefits, including longer-term financial assistance provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

For the latest information on Virginia efforts, www.vaemergency.com or this site remain good resources. Questions that cannot be answered there, and offers that cannot be made through a charitable organization, can be directed to the state’s Public Inquiry Line at 866-880-4288.

# # #

[preciousdove]

184. Richmond 200

http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=3820436

Evacuees to Richmond
Sep 7, 2005, 08:56 PM Email to a Friend Printer Friendly Version

Over 200 evacuees in central Virginia are already getting help from the Red Cross after registering with the organization in Richmond.

[preciousdove]

48. Washington State - post here

[preciousdove]

58. Military facilites, 1000

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2002472845&zsection_id=2002111777&slug=evac05&date=20050905

Kulongoski makes arrangements for Katrina refugees
9/3/2005, 5:18 p.m. PT
The Associated Press

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Ted Kulongoski is making arrangements to accommodate around 1,000 refugees from the Gulf States.

[preciousdove]

83. Fort Lewis, 2000

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/239519_katrinarefugees06.html

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

Gregoire says 2,000 refugees coming first to Fort Lewis

By CANDACE HECKMAN
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

About 2,000 people soon to be evacuated from storm-ravaged Gulf Coast states might be housed at Fort Lewis and eventually in area cities including Seattle, Gov. Christine Gregoire announced Monday.

Gregoire, who declared a state of emergency in Washington to receive federal aid for the effort, said evacuees likely would be flown into McChord Air Force Base within the next few days, possibly as soon as Thursday, and then moved to Fort Lewis.

<snip>

Named Operation Evergreen, the proposal has not yet been approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

In Seattle, officials were taking inventory of both public and private housing, such as the old barracks at the former Sand Point Naval Station, which are not yet inhabitable, said Marianne Bichsel, a spokeswoman for the Mayor's Office. The city should be able to brief the governor on its ability to house hurricane evacuees in a couple of days, she said.

[icymist]

109. 200 evacuees arrive Thursday at McChord base

200 evacuees arrive Thursday at McChord base

By Lisa Chiu

Seattle Times staff reporter

About 200 evacuees from hurricane-hit Louisiana are expected to arrive at McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma on Thursday, Gov. Christine Gregoire announced yesterday.

The evacuees are the first of up to 2,000 that Washington state will be welcoming.

Gregoire said she expects President Bush to approve today her request for $5 million in federal emergency funds. She proclaimed a state of emergency yesterday to qualify for the federal money, which will reimburse the state for costs associated with aiding evacuees.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002474637_evacuees06m.html

[uppityperson]

205. Not coming, local RedCross not recruiting nurses either (bah)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002479799_katrinaevac08m.html

"They may have lost all their material possessions, but there's still a lot of community left," said Althea Cawley-Murphree, a spokeswoman for Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire, who took part in a conference call yesterday with Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

They're not yet ready to come here, Cawley-Murphree said. And they may never be ready. "There's a reason they don't live here now," she said. "This wasn't their idea of home."

Ed Conley, a liaison for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), said the agency has no plans to transport more people to shelters in other states.

"There were several states that offered opportunities for people to go via plane and bus," he said. "There just weren't any takers. We can't force people to leave."

[icymist]

107. That one should be in Oregon.

The story link is to Washington State, but your storyline on your post is for Oregon.

[progressivebydesign]

178. Change Of Plans, Evacuees Not Coming To Washington

http://www.komotv.com/stories/39036.htm

Looks like our State has been told that they evacuees are not coming after all. I honestly wondered if the Government was foolhardy in sending these evacuees all over the country, as if they were possessions. I mean.. can you imagine being round up into a dome, flown to texas, then shipped off to a State you know nothing about? How about some personal freedom? They're treating them like children. Perhaps the govt figured out they were doing it all wrong.

[preciousdove]

49. West Virginia - post here

[The Great Escape]

114. At Camp Dawson, Katrina survivors recall life in hell of New Orleans

W.Va. opens its arms to refugees

At Camp Dawson, Katrina survivors recall life in hell of New Orleans


By Chandra Broadwater
Staff writer

CAMP DAWSON — No more water.

Seventy-three-year-old Emelda Brooks kept repeating those words as she and her daughter hugged close. Robin Brooks had just driven in from Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon to find her mother and brother at the West Virginia National Guard’s Camp Dawson in Preston County. The three sat on a bunk bed tightly holding onto each other.

“No more water, I don’t want no more water,” the elder Brooks said, shaking her head as tears rolled down her cheeks.


The last Robin had heard a week ago, her New Orleans-based family was trying to get out of the house. Water around their home, in the heart of the city, was rising fast.

So Emelda and her son, Rodney, trudged through water more than 4 feet high along the interstate to the Superdome. There they waited out the week with thousands of others, in hell: with no water, no food, among dead bodies and unbearably foul odors

http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2005090515

[The Great Escape]

115. Camp Dawson Info (link)...

http://www.wv.ngb.army.mil/dawson/

[preciousdove]

145. Charleston WV instead of Charleston SC snafu 180

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/06/katrina.charleston/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Right city, wrong state
FEMA accused of flying evacuees to wrong Charleston

Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Posted: 11:29 p.m. EDT (03:29 GMT)

Dr. Robert Ball, right, waits for evacuees to arrive Tuesday at a Charleston, South Carolina airport.
A South Carolina health official said his colleagues scrambled Tuesday when FEMA gave only a half-hour notice to prepare for the arrival of a plane carrying as many as 180 evacuees to Charleston.

But the plane, instead, landed in Charleston, West Virginia, 400 miles away.

It was not known whether arrangements have been made to care for the evacuees or transport them to the correct destination.

[preciousdove]

155. Charleston, NG halts flights from NO

http://www.woay.com/news.cfm?showarticle=24A9351E-0E85-411A-B43AD735AD251C58

Hurricane Katrina Update

The state Air National Guard has suspended refugee flights to West Virginia until federal officials come up with a better plan to relocate the New Orleans residents. The Guard had been sending C-130 cargo planes to Louisiana to
bring back refugees. The planes returned with about 220 refugees over the weekend, but since then communication broke down and four
planes returned to Charleston this morning empty. (Assoicated Press)

[preciousdove]

50. Wisconsin - post here

[preciousdove]

63. W Allis, State Fair Park, hundreds

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=3414845

September 5, 2005 (WEST ALLIS, Wis.) - Governor Doyle is announcing a coordinated relief effort regarding Hurricane Katrina evacuees today at the Wisconsin State Fair Park.

It's expected that hundreds of evacuees will be housed at the Tommy G. Thompson dorm at the park.

[preciousdove]

166. Madison, Allied Drive Housing, expecting 2 bus loads

http://www.madison.com/tct/home/photo/index.php?ntid=53211&ntpid=0

Help from the grass roots
200 prepare 20 apartments on Allied Drive for evacuees
By Pat Schneider
September 7, 2005

[preciousdove]

188. Wis Dept. of Military Affairs: FEMA Says Wisconsin on Hold for Katrina

http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=43889
9/7/2005

Wisconsin Emergency Operations Center, 608-242-3294

Today Wisconsin was notified by FEMA and the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) that until further information becomes available all plans to transfer Hurricane Katrina evacuees from Texas to other states are “on hold.”

[preciousdove]

51. Wyoming - post here

[preciousdove]

52. Military ships & Cruise ships - post here

[preciousdove]

56. Carnival ships 7,000,

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-09-04-carnival-katrina_x.htm?POE=TRVISVA

FEMA chartering Carnival ships for Katrina refugees
The Associated Press
Federal officials are chartering three of Carnival Cruise Lines' ships for six months, part of a plan to provide shelter for as many as 7,000 people displaced by devastating Hurricane Katrina

[preciousdove]

54. DC, US territories and other US

[preciousdove]

60. DC Armory, 400

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090500983.html

The proposed airlift of 400 Hurricane Katrina evacuees to the D.C. Armory yesterday was temporarily delayed by federal officials who sought more time to develop a comprehensive national plan for placing victims across the country, authorities said.

[preciousdove]

84. Puerto Rico, Ceiba, Roosevelt Roads Navy Base, 1000

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4658980

Reports from people in Ceiba, PUerto Rico, indicate that at least 1,000 survivors of Katrina are being brought to the (supposedly closed but still run and restricted by) Roosevelt Roads Navy Base. This has precedence, when Haitian survivors of a hurricane ended up in Ft. Allen, Puerto Rico. The people are kept from the press, and from the civilians outside. And if the survivors don't speak Spanish they will have a hard time communicating even if they can get out.

[preciousdove]

55. other countries - post here

[icymist]

110. How many foriegn nationals are missing in New Orleans?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4643137

150 British
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1563011,00.html
69 Belgians
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=23387&name=Belgian+logistics+team+sentto+hurricane+disaster+area+
40 Norwegian
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1106791.ece
70 Australian
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-relationship-in-question/2005/09/05/1125772458051.html
at least 9 Canadians
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/09/02/Canadians_in_US20050902.html
10 Kenyans
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=28473
Four SA (South Africa) citizens
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1125942840298B243
Two Israelis
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=89271
And one New Zealander, but, no link.

[icymist]

117. Four New Zealanders missing.

Four Kiwis missing in Katrina's wake

07.09.05
By Juliet Rowan and Jarrod Booker


Fears are mounting for four New Zealanders who have not been heard from since Hurricane Katrina hit the United States nine days ago.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday that it was worried about not only Aucklander Brendan Clifford-Walsh but also three other people who had not contacted their families since the disaster.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10344400

[icymist]

133. Missing New Zealanders down to three

Missing New Zealanders down to three

07.09.05 4.50pm UPDATE


Even as two New Zealand families were rejoicing at the news their loved ones had turned up safe and well a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, three other New Zealand nationals are still unaccounted for.
(more)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10344484

[icymist]

223. ONE Hungarian still missing

September 8, 2005 - Volume XIII, Issue 36
Aid offered to US

ONE Hungarian is still missing in the Louisiana/Mississippi/Alabama area devastated by Hurricane Katrina and the Hungarian Government has offered to help victims of the disaster by sending a special team of doctors, ambulance staff and forensic experts.

Ferenc Szabó, deputy spokesperson at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told The Budapest Sun, "One Hungarian is still missing, but unfortunately we don't know anything about him. We don't even know if he is still in that area, but he is definitely missing.


http://www.budapestsun.com/full_story.asp?ArticleId={180B12EFE10E4CB7946FF762A12C8B46}&From=News

[icymist]

121. SA (South Africian) pair safe after Hurricane Katrina

SA pair safe after Hurricane Katrina

September 06 2005 at 07:07PM

Pretoria - Two of the five South Africans who were believed to be missing after Hurricane Katrina in the United Sates have been located alive and well, foreign affairs officials said on Tuesday.

"By Monday, four South Africans had been placed on the emergency management list. This subsequently rose to five following an enquiry from a member of the public whose relative was believed to be in New Orleans at the time of the disaster.

"Consequently, three South Africans now remain on the emergency management list," departmental spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said.


http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1126026362105B236

[icymist]

140. Aussie Katrina victim found in jail

Aussie Katrina victim found in jail

08sep05

AN Australian man feared missing in the hurricane-devastated US city of New Orleans has been found safe and well, in jail.

Tourist Ashley McDonald, of Narre Warren in Melbourne's south-east, was arrested in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit last week but was but transferred out of the devastated city, his sister Jasmine Mutnansky said.
"They evacuated the prisoners and they were scattered all over...," He has turned up in Huntsville (in Alabama).

http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16531531%255E1702,00.html

[preciousdove]

65. FEMA & Red Cross Data multiple states- post here

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66. Hurricane Katrina Response And Recovery Update September 4, 2005

All evacuees at the New Orleans Superdome and Convention Center, more than 22,000 people, have been bused or airlifted from disaster-stricken areas—additional evacuees from these two locations are anticipated. Estimated relocations:

Alabama 6,000
District of Columbia 1,000
Florida 1,400
Georgia 900
Louisiana 60,000
Mississippi 16,000
Tennessee 100
Texas 137,000
Total: 222,400

Approximately 12,500 evacuees are being hosted at the Houston Astrodome.
As of today, 563 shelters opened in 10 states with a total population of 151,409 people sheltered.
A 12-car Amtrak train making two round trips daily between New Orleans and Lafayette, LA, will evacuate 650 passengers on each train to various destinations.
More than 35,000 people have been evacuated from Louisiana.
Over 100 million ready meals (MREs) have been shipped by the
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18602

Department of Defense to shelters and more than 170,000 meals are being served each day in affected areas.
In Louisiana, there are currently 29 Disaster Medical Teams (DMAT); 5 Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams (DMORT); 2 Veterinary Assistant Teams (VMAT); and 1 Mental Health Team.
In Mississippi, there are currently 10 DMATs; 5 DMORTS; and 1 Mental Health Team.
More than 30,000 National Guard are on the ground to provide response, rescue, recovery and law enforcement, and are working around the clock to bring critical aid and support to hurricane victims. An additional 12,730 Active Duty military personnel have also been deployed.
During the past week, the U.S. Coast Guard saved 15,665 people, which is more than three times the number of lives saved in all of 2004.
5,877 FEMA personnel have been deployed to the field, including:
1,811 National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) medical professionals
1,777 Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) staff
FEMA has received more than 10,000 charitable offers though the web link to the National Emergency Resource Registry.

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153. BBC Map of Evacuation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/americas/05/katrina/html/evacuation.stm

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154. AP Table of State by State Evacuees

kick-ass-bob (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-05 10:17 AM
Response to Original message
5. updated AP numbers in table form:
REFUGEES NATIONWIDE

Snapshots of some states that are harboring people who fled from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath:

TEXAS: About 240,000 in shelters and hotels

ARKANSAS: At least 60,000

LOUISIANA: 53,170 in 86 shelters; 804 in special-needs shelters

MISSISSIPPI: More than 17,000 in Red Cross shelters

TENNESSEE: About 16,000

ALABAMA: About 5,380 in shelters; 20,000 elsewhere

OKLAHOMA: About 1,500 at a National Guard training center

MISSOURI: About 1,500 people in hotels, churches or shelters

GEORGIA: 1,134 in 17 Red Cross shelters

NORTH CAROLINA: More than 1,100

ILLINOIS: More than 1,000

KANSAS: Fewer than 1,000

VIRGINIA: 879 with friends or relatives

INDIANA: About 800

FLORIDA: 778 in 11 emergency shelters

KENTUCKY: About 600

UTAH: 583 in suburban Salt Lake City

ARIZONA: 576 in one shelter

SOUTH CAROLINA: At least 500 families in state

OHIO: At least 470 individuals and 73 families

CONNECTICUT: About 400 in New Haven

WEST VIRGINIA: About 350

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: About 290 at the D.C. Armory and hospitals

MICHIGAN: About 247 at Fort Custer Training Center; others elsewhere

COLORADO: 200 at the former Lowry Air Force Base

NEW MEXICO: 40 to 50 at the Albuquerque Convention Center

The Associated Press

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4677783

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216. Katrina Evacuees Spread Across 23 States, D.C.

http://www.fox23news.com/weather/story.aspx?content_id=4DC6B300-2CA7-47AC-95D8-5CD6532E4C2B

September 10, 2005 2:38 AM

Of the nearly 1 million people displaced by Katrina, some 250,000 were living in shelters affiliated with the Red Cross and federal disaster agencies in 23 states and the District of Columbia as of noon Thursday, said Russ Knocke, spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.

In addition to those in shelters, hundreds of thousands of evacuees had spread out across the country to stay in hotels, with family and friends and in housing provided by state and local governments...

It's the largest (American) Red Cross response to a natural disaster in the history of our organization," said spokeswoman Devorah Goldberg. "We know it's going to cost in the millions, because we've already sheltered about 160,000 people and we have over 650 (Red Cross) shelters open in 17 states. But we don't have final figures because we're in the midst of trying to respond to this disaster and meet the immediate needs."

Texas housed by far the largest number of evacuees, with 135,000 in shelters, followed by Louisiana itself, with 71,700, according to Homeland Security figures. But numbers were fluctuating by the hour as planeloads of evacuees arrived in new destinations, and the figures only hinted at the extent of dislocation.

In Arkansas, with 15,600 people in shelters, state officials said the actual number of evacuees was as high as 70,000 and growing. And some states not on the federal shelter list, such as Pennsylvania, reported they were housing refugees in schools and other facilities.

Nationwide, the 800 official shelters affiliated with Homeland Security, FEMA and the Red Cross were working with local governments to care for refugees...

While the federal government lists 300 evacuees in shelters in the state, most of the evacuees in South Carolina were living in hotels, he added...

Two states that do not yet have evacuees in official shelters said they were preparing for their possible arrival. Oregon was expecting 500 Saturday, said Anna Richter Taylor, spokeswoman for Gov. Ted Kulongoski. Washington also was placed on standby, officials there said.

In Illinois, 300 evacuees were living in state-operated shelters, but there were probably 1,000 hurricane victims in the state when those living with family and friends were included, said Patti Thompson, spokeswoman for the Illinois Emergency Management Agency...

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228. Misery by the numbers: the toll of Katrina -- Latest statistics Sep 10 AM

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4733286

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231. Twenty-one states declared national disasters so far according to:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4734095&mesg_id=4737522

Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Georgia
Oklahoma
Florida
West Virginia
North Carolina
Utah
Colorado
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Missouri
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency
http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3833103

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139. !!!IMPORTANT LEXIS NEXIS PORTAL for Research!!!

http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/

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203. Latest Breaking News for Evacuees (Google)

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=Katrina%20evacuees

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224. Those vounteering @shelters can show victims www.hurricanehousing.org

252,331 beds from almost 50 states have been volunteered so far by those offering homes through MoveOn's http://www.hurricanehousing.org

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230. Shelter Finder/People Finder Links

VOLUNTEERS SURF and SCRUB THE WEB TO HELP RECONNECT FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Shelter Finder
http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/ShelterFinder

People Finder
http://www.katrinalist.net

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233. Best map yet I've found on where the survivors have been taken:

(Article in German)
21 Staaten, 430.000 Flüchtlinge (21 States, 430,000 Refugees)

http://www.stern.de/politik/panorama/545050.html?nv=ct_mt