Hurricane Katrina Refugees: How many to Brownwood ?

Utah May House 1,000 Hurricane Refugees
By DEBBIE HUMMEL, Associated Press Writer 56 minutes ago
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah is ready to accept up to 1,000 people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Gov. Jon Huntsman said Wednesday. The state of Louisiana asked for help housing the refugees, he said.
"We did a quick calculation as to what we could accommodate immediately and we came up with 1,000," Huntsman said. "I'm glad Utah is seen as a community that will reach out charitably."
The displaced residents would likely stay in housing at the Army National Guard's Camp Williams in Draper or at an overflow shelter in Midvale, both Salt Lake City suburbs.
The state can provide such basic services as shelter, food, clothing and schooling for children.
source:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050901/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_katrina_utah_hk4
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Waco church to house Katrina refugees

By Tim Woods Tribune-Herald staff writer
Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Volunteers at Seventh and James Baptist Church were scrambling on Tuesday to accommodate overflow refugees from Louisiana.
The Waco church, which has offered to shelter those displaced by Hurricane Katrina, expects to be at capacity within the next couple days, according to Mary Darden, coordinator of the site.
The volunteers were expecting about 50 people Tuesday night from Bryan, where the shelters were too full to house them.
Darden said that the church can hold about 100 people, with each family assigned their own room, but she expects many more will need housing because all of the shelters in New Orleans were being evacuated on Tuesday after flooding from the hurricane.
She said that those evacuations will leave an additional 15,000-25,000 in need of shelter. Because most of the shelters between New Orleans and Waco are at capacity, Darden expected some of them to arrive in Waco in a day or two. She said she heard from the American Red Cross that there may be as many as 1,000 refugees heading to Waco, but was not sure if that was true.
source:http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/08/31/20050831wacrefugees.html