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Archive for August, 2008
Mississippi Gustav Evacuee Shelters
Shelters for Gustav evacuees:
Call 211, or 1-866-472-8265 or,
Red Cross: 1-800-RED-CROSS (733-2767), or click here
- Public Information Line: 866-519-MEMA.
- Media Information Line: 866-920-MEMA.
- MDOT: 866-521-MDOT (6368).
- Volunteer information: 1-866-472-8265.
- Safe and Well: click here
- Hurricane Preparedness Number: 1-866-458-4948
- Mississippi Department of Health: http://www.HealthMs.com.
- Hotel Accomodation information: click here
Gustav news releases:
- Phone numbers for shelter information, click here
- Department of Health opened one Special Needs Shelter. click here
- Hancock County orders more mandatory evacuations click here
- FEMA/MEMA housing must evacuate click here
- Not too late to evacuate click here
- Volunteer information in MS click here
- MDOT Traffic update for I-55 and 59 click here
- MDOT Traffic update for I-10 click here
- MDOT urges people to avoid I-10 on Aug. 31, click here
- Harrison County issues Mandatory Evacuation for Sunday click here
- Mississippi Gaming Commission Orders Gulf Coast Casinos Closed click here
- Mississippi receives federal emergency declaration on Aug. 30. click here
- MDOT begins contraflow on Interstates 59 and 55 at 4 a.m. Sunday. click here
- All Harrison County Schools Closed Tuesday, Sept. 2 click here
- Department of Health to open Special Needs Shelters. click here
- Department of Education to send buses for evacuations on Sunday, Aug. 31 click here
- Evacuations ordered for Jackson County, Aug. 30, click here
- Department of Mental Health evacuates South Mississippi Regional Center residents: click here
- Department of Health issues preparedness message Aug. 29 click here
- Joint Information Center opens Aug. 29 click here
- Governor Haley Barbour issues mandatory evacuations, Aug. 29 click here
- Governor Haley Barbour requests federal disaster declaration, Aug. 29 click here
- Governor Haley Barbour declares State of Emergency, Aug. 28 click here
Hurricane Preparedness Guide: click here
31
08 2008
The Bus From New Orleans
ON AN EVACUATION BUS IN BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — Darryl Campbell began his Hurricane Gustav escape at 4 a.m. Saturday. After 10 hours of lines and traffic, he was finally speeding down the highway to an uncertain future in either Shreveport, La., or farther north in Arkansas.
With swing jazz piping through the bus speakers, and the slouched shoulders of the elderly and poor filling the seats, he borrowed a cell phone to check on his mother, who had boarded another bus to flee to Baton Rouge.
“The Lord is with everyone, so of course everything would be OK” with her, he said, finishing his call and handing the phone back to its owner, a furniture maker who goes by his artisan name Ramsey.
Nearly all the 50 people on the ride said they may never return home, including Ramsey.
“I think once I get there to Arkansas I’m going straight to Stone Mountain, Ga.,” said the 51-year-old, who has family in Stone Mountain. “I gave myself a year and a half to make it in New Orleans. But the city isn’t back from Katrina, and it’s time to leave.”
Campbell, 37, did not disagree. He had been working for room and board at the Ozanam Inn homeless shelter in New Orleans…
31
08 2008
Empty Shelves In New Orleans
Supermarkets throughout the New Orleans area clear their shelves of perishable food items as Hurricane Gustav continues its approach towards Louisiana on Saturday.
Nearly all dairy and meat products have been removed from Winn Dixie’s shelves in Metairie.
Winn Dixie employees pull all the vegetables out of the produce section.
Customers choose from among the last remaining fruit available at Winn Dixie in Metairie.
30
08 2008
Tennessee May Get Several Thousand Gustav Evacuees
Tennessee May Get Several Thousand Gustav Evacuees
The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency says several thousand evacuees are expected to flee to the state if Hurricane Gustav hits hard in the New Orleans area.
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30
08 2008
Katrina survivors are leaving
No matter where Hurricane Gustav makes its North American landfall, Clara Rita Barthelemy, 61, plans to be far away from New …
30
08 2008
McCain Chooses Palin as Running Mate
McCain Chooses Palin as Running Mate
In choosing Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the McCain campaign reached far outside the Beltway…
