More on Katrian Victims

This post has three items:
First:
This article is from AP and touches upon forced evacuation of remaining residents in New Orleans:
New Orleans’ toxic tide

One man says he will refuse to leave. He is healthy, his home is intact and he has all the supplies he needs to survive.

Second:
This article describes aid from Utahns flooding in:
Utah stepping up with aid
I’m a little confused because I keep hearing that only money is being accepted, but some organizations are still collecting food.

Third:
Yesterday Tom called Camp Williams (the base in Bluffdale, UT where 600 Katrina evacuees are currently residing) to attempt to talk to someone in charge to see if he could speak to an evacuee. He was referred to a couple of phone numbers that had no voicemail or answering machine and no one answered the numbers to which he was referred.

Today he is going to find out if evacuees can freely leave the base. We had heard throught he grapevine that evacuees were not being permitted to leave freely because of the fear that there might be “looting” if they were free to roam about…..

Hopefully I’ll have an update later.

One response to “More on Katrian Victims

  1. We found out from a friend yesterday that evacuees residing at Camp Williams are not permitted to leave the base unless escorted. This friend is a social worker in Utah and told me that all volunterr social workers were turned away.

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