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Sheltering and Evacuating from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

In: Safeguarding Homeland Security

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  • Henry Garrett

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Corpus Christi, a city of 285,000, received several thousand refugees from Hurricane Katrina. City personnel and volunteers converted the Coliseum for the evacuees, some of whom were sheltered in neighboring communities. Food provided by volunteer restaurants, medical services, Internet access to other communities, and travel assistance to reunite families were provided. An emergency operations center and a mobile command post were used. Then Hurricane Rita forced the city to evacuate the refugees and its residents, including, 350 special needs citizens who were transported to a Senior Center and then evacuated to San Antonio. Corpus Christi employees are considered essential and are not allowed to evacuate. The city operated a “refuge of last resort.”

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  • Henry Garrett, 2009. "Sheltering and Evacuating from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita," Springer Books, in: Simon Hakim & Erwin A. Blackstone (ed.), Safeguarding Homeland Security, chapter 0, pages 81-86, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4419-0371-6_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0371-6_8
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