Texas Information

Here's a paragraph from Chief Pessink's report:

If you are interested in the daily situation reports from the Texas Division of Emergency Management their web site is http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/dem/click the link "Texas Situation Reports". (These reports are in pdf format so you'll need the (free) adobe acrobat reader to read them.

Some have asked why allow only 50 people, we could put them up in abandoned schools and other buildings or camps. The main reason is because we can not muster the man power, volunteer or otherwise, to care for these sites. We could not expect for example to draw security personnel from surrounding communities because they are having to deal with the same situation as we are.

The local effort has gone through the proper channels to abide by the emergency operations plan, this allows us to draw resources from the State and Federal governments. Had we done other wise we would have been burdened with a long term operation that the Local community would have to bear.

If we receive evacuees we want this to be as short a time as possible that they will need to stay in the shelter. To accomplish this we will need jobs for those able to work, housing for those who will stay, transportation. The state is allowing children to enroll in school as homeless (school supplies have already been taken care of), there is an opportunity for the realtors and/or rental property owners to help as well as the car dealers.