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Astrodome update
Hello everyone,
I was just reading the lastest posts and I thought I would give an update on the Astrodome situation here in Houston. My husband went down today to help out, he works for Shell and Shell had a sign up for their employees to go down to the Astrodome to work 6 hour shifts.
Seems the population of the Astrodome has gone down considerably as the refugees are finding housing. Yesterday the population was down to 8,000 from almost 15,000 last week.
And today I went to our church and there were signs up saying no more donations of items were needed. Of course, food and money are still needed, but what good news that many of the clothing, toys, shoes, and toiletry needs have been met, at least here in Houston. I did have one friend tell me that they saw mountains of boxes and bags of itmes down at the Astrodome last week, so I suppose the problem could be shortage of volunteers to sort that stuff. (But, and I'm just thinking aloud here, why not have some of the refugees help sort things if that's the problem.) Anyway, the sign did say they didn't need any more donations.
I'm always looking for any bit of hopeful news among this huge disaster so I thought I would pass this tiny little bit on, that at least the refugees have clothes, etc. It's a small start for these people who have such huge challenges ahead of them as they try to get their lives back.
Joan
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