Red Cross should be helping these poor people get out of their

[2Design]

So many standing there with paychecks and no where to cash them
IT takes money to leave
People running out of gas on the highway

They should be flying everyone out of there now not after they are dead and sick

[Mikimouse]

1. IIRC, the Red Cross in Texas removed its...

facilities from the list of emergency shelters back in 1998 or 1999. I don't know what their current status might be, but if that is still the case, then I would not count them as part of the evac. effort either.

[applegrove]

2. Interesting. Bush was in power and the Red Cross went down? Is it

all contracted out?

[Mikimouse]

3. It has been a while, so I don't really know what is happening now...

I do know that most of the Red Cross shelters in the Houston area were too close to flood prone areas. Much of the emphasis in the Houston emergency management plan was cented around the Johnson space Center and its potential use as an emergency shelter. The folks at Red Cross were quite explicit about their involvement in sheltering when I spoke with them last in 2001.