The Red Cross is delivering assistance checks again today. Took these
pictures on the forth day, thought by now it would have ended but the
line seems to swell every day, down canal to state st, and wrapping
down wall street. There are buses bringing people in also. The Guard
and Police keep order.
Democrat
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are they using the natchez convention center for evacuees?
Nope. Just an assistance center during the day for sign-ups, etc. There is also a barely visited trailer from Co-Lin Jr. college. FEMA is paying for everything, everywhere. Hotel rooms, trailers, houses.
Some related reading here; evacuees
I think nearly all of raymond and rosie's kids were in biloxi/gulfport. Raymond Jr was there but evacuated before the storm. he's already back down there working on clean up. the youngest son (clayton?) married to ed weatherly's dau, lives in monroe. seems like one of the girls is still in natchez but i think all of the rest live on the coast. the pics on ted koppel tonight were sobering, esp all the people dying on the ground while waiting for evacuation and people passing their month old babies across the heads of the crowd begging the guards to take the infants to hospitals. the stench, they sd, in the NO convention center having had no running water and no supplies delivered etc for days was excruciating. people covering their dead with sheets in the convention center, people who'd weathered the hurricane, but couldn't last without food or water waiting on evacuation. sigh.
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