Ok mg, the horse is dead..on his back with his feet in the air in a pile of teddy bears-- and he is blocking the road to genuine relief efforts. Your concerns and ideas are genuine and show empathy, but don't really reflect what in needed in this crisis.

You simply cannot 'send teddy bears & old t-shirts', etc. Those have to be sorted, collected, shipped and delivered by the same people who are busy dealing with food, water and bodies.

"a few dozen trucks" need fuel, and that is hard to find when power is out, and it must be rationed carefully. Experts are working on this, but the scale of it means they just cannot get to everyone quickly. The basic plea holds.. send MONEY.. unless you are some corporation or country with access to special resources, like helicopters or ships.