Sentences with phrase «many evacuees»

Massive floods across southern Alberta aren't just wreaking havoc for evacuees in urban centres.

The Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority began busing evacuees to San Antonio on Thursday.

About 9,000 evacuees were staying at Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center and city officials on Tuesday opened the Toyota Center arena to house more storm refugees.

Evacuees are being told to gather at Yellowjacket Union at the University of Wisconsin - Superior or at Four Corners Elementary School in Superior.

Many evacuees still haven't returned, and Bartels said he was grateful that his family had to gut just one bedroom in their house.

The GasTOPS evacuees were all highly skilled technical employees, and while not all were managers, they all worked with minimal supervision.

Some highways have ground to a halt from congestion as evacuees flee the most dangerous hurricane areas.

One example: In partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Uniqlo Recycle has delivered 20.3 million clothing items to refugees, evacuees, victims of disaster, expectant and nursing mothers and others in need around the world since 2007.

Will Gibson, a spokesman for Syncrude, which has a plant about 35 kilometres north of town, was himself one of the evacuees heading north away from the flames.

-- Oilsands work camps were being pressed into service Tuesday to house evacuees as a raging wildfire emptied the city of Fort McMurray.

AirBnb If you live in an area popular for evacuees — largely the Southeast / Florida, consider sharing your home on Airbnb.

Through relief flights, the transportation of emergency supplies, airline employee volunteer efforts and fundraising programs facilitated through airline mileage programs, U.S. cargo and passenger carriers transported more than 4.5 million pounds of life - saving food, water and supplies, accommodated more than 6,500 evacuees, relocated hundreds of stranded pets and relaxed travel policies to more than 80 airports in the path of the hurricanes.

Torchlight helps friends and family check in and helps evacuees find and evaluate the shelters around them.

They included refugees, evacuees and displaced children.

B Strong and Delivering Good partnered with New York Disaster Interfaith Services to provide $ 92,500 worth of gift cards to evacuee families, to supplement additional aid that Delivering Good was providing in the form of clothing, coats, and supplies.

«Without a strong relationship with the company, it's going to be tough» for desperate evacuees to get a seat, Stewart said.

Airbnb waived its service fees for evacuees and organized a program for hosts to list their rooms for free.

One of the high - profile evacuees was none other than shock radio host Rush Limbaugh, who obliquely

This Tuesday, Houston's Lakewood Church — one of America's largest and most prominent megachurches — announced plans to open its doors to evacuees of the Harvey flooding, following several days of criticism over its pastor, Joel Osteen's, response to the crisis.

Royal Caribbean International, for example, recently transported medical teams, relief supplies and 500 generators to San Juan aboard its Adventure of the Seas, as well as delivering additional supplies to St. Thomas and St. Croix and transporting approximately 3,000 evacuees to Florida.

One of the high - profile evacuees was none other than shock radio host Rush Limbaugh, who obliquely announced he was leaving after previously urging his listeners in Florida to ignore official warnings.

In Texas and in Florida, with the support of donors and partners such as the Houston Humane Society, Animal Investigations and Response, the Alachua County Humane Society, San Antonio Animal Care Services, Wings of Rescue, Greater Good and country star Miranda Lambert's Mutt Nation, The HSUS transported out hundreds of animals who'd already been awaiting adoption before the storm, helping local organizations make room for evacuees» pets and storm strays.

Self - evacuees with pets are encouraged to go to the Hill Country Youth Event Center, located at 3785 Highway 27 East in Kerrville.

South San ISD has also teamed up with the Red Cross and opened up Kazen Middle School, located at 1520 Gillette Blvd., San Antonio, TX 78224, to 150 evacuees.

Registration is required for all self - evacuees.

The American Red Cross is opening multiple pop up shelters throughout the city for Hurricane Harvey evacuees.

The mayor has opened a temporary shelter for coastal evacuees at the Civic Center on Main Street.

While this could be due to evacuees prior to the storm, or from manpower being siphoned toward the recovery efforts, it sounds as though Puerto Rico's hobbling economy is on course for another setback.

Finally, local food banks need help securing supplies for evacuees, the city's homeless and all other victims of the storm.

On Thursday, at least two schools — Quest Elementary and Ralph Williams Elementary in Viera — were still sheltering 108 evacuees with special needs.

Each can shelter about 800 evacuees, will have a couple dozen staff members from the district and Parks and Recreation Department, and be ready with food to last four or five days, said BPS chief operating officer Mark Mullins.

Damages include flooded homes, lack of drinking water and electrical services, massive destruction of plantations and crops, risks associated with mosquito - borne and water - borne diseases, collapsed structures, public safety issues, and millions of evacuees in shelters.

Dozens of buses carry evacuees from Aleppo to areas outside the city in the government - held West.

If you live in the area, the Red Cross is looking for volunteers to help with the evacuees.

Several churches located on higher ground served as temporary shelters or meeting points for evacuees.

A local Seventh - day Adventist church in Antigua has helped find housing for evacuees from Barbuda, after all 1,800 residents fled.

Among the evacuees rescued by the organization was Jonathan Falwell, pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church and son of the late Jerry Falwell, who was there on facation.

After several members tweeted Sunday that First Baptist Church North Houston had opened its doors to stranded residents, the building ended up with 300 evacuees, not enough food, and no working toilets.

One of them, Fallbrook Church in north Houston, has already transported all of its evacuees and closed.

Gregg Matte, pastor at Houston's First Baptist, spent the weekend checking in with members of his congregation — from elderly evacuees to a local TV meteorologist — with whom he has been texting Bible verses in between broadcasts.

When in October and November 1944 the first evacuees from Auschwitz arrived in Bergen - Belsen (a camp where prisoners died only from starvation, exhaustion, disease and maltreatment) and told us about the gas chambers, we did not believe them.

After a short pause due to logistical problems, flights carrying evacuees from Haiti to the United States have resumed.

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AIRBNB: If you can offer up room locally for displaced residents and evacuees, or if you need a place to stay, AirBNB will help facilitate that.

THE SAINTS OPENED THE 2005 season at Carolina, and senior writer Lee Jenkins watched from Houston, on a small television in Hall C of the Reliant Center, with about 200 Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

The Saints won, on a field goal by John Carney with three seconds left, and the evacuees erupted, hugging each other, racing around the shelter, shouting their «Who Dat» chant.

Boo is learning about WW2 at school and today they are of on a museum visit dressed as evacuee children.

Mini has to dress as an evacuee for his visit to beamish next month.

(There's an especially huge need for diapers among displaced families and evacuees.)

Austin Public Health and Mom's Place WIC Breastfeeding Clinic are currently assessing lactation support needs at Austin - area shelters for incoming Hurricane Harvey evacuees.