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Local groups ready to help
As the U.S. Gulf Coast braces for Hurricane Gustav to reach land probably late on Monday morning, relief efforts are already under way and local groups are also on standby.
Roy Lacey, executive director of the Idaho Foodbank, said the organization is set to ship supplies to hurricane victims as soon as it's determined where the biggest need will be. "We have to wait until it hits to know where the need will be," Lacey said. The Idaho Foodbank delivered Power Bars, dehydrated food and bottled water to victims of Hurricane Katrina three years ago.
Randy Spencer, spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Pocatello Stake, said tractor-trailers loaded with supplies left Salt Lake City Friday headed for Gulf Coast. Trucks loaded with food, hygiene and cleaning kits left Thursday and additional items were shipped over the weekend.
The relief supplies will be stored at LDS church facilities in Louisiana and Texas awaiting further word on where they will be needed most. Experts are forecasting that the hurricane is likely to remain at a Category 3 status when it makes landfall.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provided 200 semitrailer loads of aid and 42,000 man-days of labor in response to Hurricane Katrina. Diane Lewis, of the American Red Cross in Idaho Falls, said eight volunteers from Southeast Idaho have already deployed to the Gulf states to prepare for Hurricane Gustav's arrival.
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