Hurricanes produce devastating damage, through wind, surf, storm surge, rain, and tornadoes. At the time of Katrina and Rita, there was no system to deal with mass evacuations. No system existed that helped people blown apart by the storms to locate each other, other than the overwhelmed Red Cross, which had its limits.
Now, the resources for locating one another after an evacuation are in place.
The news about Hurricane Ike has been full of the devastation to Galveston and the Bolivar Peninusula. Wherever people evacuated, the concern seems to have been finding how much they have lost, rather than reuniting with loved ones. If evacuees from Gustav and Ike have been “blown apart,” I am not getting the news about the needs and resources.
Personlinks is therefore suspending operations. This once useful volunteer effort seems no longer necessary. Thanks for your support in the past.
A note: for the devastation to homes on the Gulf Coast:
This short description is a wrenching essay on losing everything, losing a whole community of year-round residents on the Bolivar Peninsula, in East Texas.
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