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We need to change who we are. We can have the most robust system possible, but what we need to have are the right volunteers in the right places doing the right work.
The scope of this is just so huge. If you took New Orleans out of the equation, Mississippi and Alabama would be a bigger job than we tackled in all four of the storms that hit Florida last year.
We are proud of the extraordinary efforts of the more than 225,000 Red Crossers who put their day-to-day lives on hold to selflessly help their neighbors in need. Some of them lost everything in these storms, yet they put the needs of their community before their own.
Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on southeast Florida and the Gulf coast states. The Red Cross is mobilizing on all fronts to bring relief to storm victims.
Hurricane Katrina is wreaking havoc for southeast Florida and the Gulf coast states. The Red Cross will meet the challenge by doing what we do best - coming together to respond with tireless compassion to take care of our neighbors.
Frankly, our systems to do this last fall were not big enough, were not robust enough.
We will put in place in warehouses throughout the affected areas and around the country supplies needed to shelter 500,000 people. We will pre-position meals prepared to eat for a million a day.
It was obvious even before Katrina made landfall in Mississippi that this storm was going to inflict a monumental blow to the Gulf Coast.
If you think about the scope and scale, I am not sure we imagined some of our responses need to be as large what ended up happening last fall.
We are building an IT (information technology) infrastructure to be able to support 2 million families that have need of financial assistance and we will have that in place by July 1.