Azizi, thank you for clarifying the Red Cross "stand down" order.
It is the National Guard's respondsibility. We all know where they are.

When Hurricaine Camille hit the south, Nixon had troops at the sites of devestation inside 3 days. The standing flood waters of New Orleans added only 1 day before the first National Guard response reached the Stadium.


I wish to revise my remark: "Stadium housing can hold less than 1% of the displaced poor."

I should have said "Stadium shelter". It served only as a last resort shelter from the wind and rain and was not prepared to house anyone with food water and sanitation. People probably expected housing but with only 24 hours to prepare, shelter was all to be had.

The Texas stadium is trying to provide basic emergency housing needs.