Reply #182: Falls Creek, Texoma Conference Center, 0

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http://www.kten.com/article.asp?id=10006

Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 10:07:53 PM
Evacuation Operations at Falls Creek on Hold

...Since Sunday, hundreds of volunteers have been making beds, preparing food and sorting thousands of donations, but now there is a chance the estimated 3,000 evacuees will not come.

“Well, there’s a lot of reasons for that and we don’t know all of those reasons,” said Sam Porter, Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief Director. “Some evacuees are at the Astrodome and they are still hoping against hope to go back home and maybe go back to their jobs, but truthfully, many of their homes and jobs are not there.”

Officials here are waiting for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to give Falls Creek what they call a "mission" before any evacuees can come...

All of Texoma’s donations will be sent to where hurricane victims who need them most.

Jocelyn Lockwood, KTEN news.