Kate has listed many many links and ideas for helping our newly devastated families. I wanted to add this one:
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you can volunteer to "adopt" a family or individual by providing shelter, a spare bedroom in your home, a motor home that's sitting in the yard. We've got a million new homeless people 500,000 from New Orleans alone! I've submitted an empty 2 bedroom rental. What will you do?
Think outside the box. What have you got to offer? Transportation to relocation sites are needed. To you have vans or buses at your disposal? How might they be useful? Please tell everyone you know about this opportunity. Call your radio stations and your congressmen. Let's get these people stablized so we can all rebuild our lives.
Melissa in Seattle