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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (108556)	9/28/2005 10:03:49 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi Tim, Bill called last night, exhausted. They drove the eight hours to Mauriceville, near Beaumont, set up a shelter, and it was full in a few hours. The people who were assigned to manage the shelter were relieved of duty (I can't speculate here) and Bill was appointed shelter manager. Incredible. He says they have plenty of food, medical staff and supplies, water. But there is no power, nor will there be, for two months, as the entire electric grid is shot. They have one rickety generator which they're running a single fan and one light. The daily temperature is around 100, before humidity. They'll be evacuating that shelter and setting folks up in a place that does have power. In the meantime, they'll be going house to house with meds and food/water, rescuing anyone who has not been able to get to shelter. He broke down at one point, recounting how a local man in his fifties, having completely lost his house, has been cooking three meals a day for the 250-300 evacuees. Bill and the other ARC staff have gotten the Red Cross to pay him for his work. He'll stay behind with them. bill also managed to jerry-rig a hookup of an elderly woman's oxygen system to the generator. The regional ARC people came by and told Bill and the other nine volunteers that they'd never seen a better-run shelter. People were kissing him last night as they were being escorted onto buses to the new shelter, telling the volunteers they'd never forget them. Bill says this has changed his life. I know it has. Please, to anyone who reads this: don't let the fading coverage of the hurricane aftermath let you forget what's going on down there. People are suffering mightily. They shouldn't be forgotten. Thanks, Tim, for asking.