We have churches on standby and we're adding to that number as we speak.
It's dwindling big time. We have more going out today. These people are linking up with families and mainly going out of town, being picked up by family or going by bus. Some, I'm sure, have gone into housing and then some families have been adopted by local families.
They know they don't have a home to go back to.
Volunteer nurses that are working in other areas of the community come to us and went through Red Cross orientation.
They came in here with dysentery because they'd been on that bridge for several days. They've been sick and some are still sick.
These people are just devastated because they have family members that are still trapped. The water was still rising and they're worried about those they know were there.
Lufkin was bursting at the seams. Some of those folks were at double capacity.
They've had some folks with special needs they were working on helping. They asked to stay open a few more days in order to complete those tasks.
We have three who've gone down there ... and we're training other spontaneous volunteers as we speak so they will be available.
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