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| Update from an Evacuee facility - Dallas Texas Convention Center 9-6-05 | |
| 2005-09-06 | |
Evacuees seem to be relaxed but you can still see that lost look on their faces. A major pharmaceutical company has an 18 wheeler load of items setup for patients staffed with pharmacists with laptops at tables taking care needs of people who are under the care of a of nurses and doctors at the convention center. Saw lots of Huggie diaper boxes for the babies, barrels of iced down bottle water all through the center. I saw several New Orleans evacuees walking around with bags full of all kinds of things such as shaving cream, toothpaste, and snacks. I even saw some of the usual Dallas homeless bums who were just outside the complex trying to sell things they managed to get from the Convention Center for themselves. Of course they were selling these things just around the corner from a liquor store, which is where the money would end up going if they could get something for it. Rire trucks are pumping water to showers, even roach coaches, those rolling mobile kitchens usually seen going around to construction sites were at the convention center serving workers and evacuees roaming around outside. FEMA has loads of people there, the vehicles, some with state tags as far away as Ohio are parked all around the Dallas, Texas Convention Center. Evacuees are also getting money to go out to some of the restaurants around downtown and you can tell who the ones in the restaurants are from New Orleans because they look very tired. Two buses pulled up and unloaded more people but I also saw people loading things into cars of others who most likely were relatives. So you have people coming in and now people going home with relatives most likely. There are rows of tables where what looks like counselors are seated where people can come to, sit down and talk. Hopefully the Red Cross can get these people into their own places real soon until they can get back home a few months from now. | |
| Posted by:RG |