name: Pearl River Region, Tribal Lands (Old Shelter Info) -> SHELTER, Pearl River Region, Tribal Lands (Old Shelter Info)

name: Pearl River Region, no specific Shelter -> Pearl River Region, Tribal Lands (Old Shelter Info)

notes: Pamela, I spoke with Kay Coward, the Project Development Specialist for the Choctaw tribal lands (of which Pearl River is a part). I was referred to her by the Pearl River Department of Public Works. She told me that all shelters on Choctaw lands have be closed (which include Pearl River, Bogue Chitto, Conehatta, Tucker, Standing Pine and others). She told me that any excess supplies from the closed shelters were sent to several inland counties, since they are not being served by Red Cross or FEMA as quickly as the coastal regions. The inland Mississippi counties she mentioned as being "underserved" are: Clark Jasper Forest Jones Smith I notice that government offices tend to refer to "counties" instead of townships. I don't know if that's relevant to the database project, but I thought I'd mention it. I didn't enter any information into the database, since I could not locate any shelters in Pearl River. Please let me know if you have another area you want me to research. (Unfortunately, I'll be away Friday-Monday for holiday.) Deb Pamela asks why shelters are closed. I'll check with her, but my impression was that people were able to return to homes. That particular region is one of the largest Native American reservations, and it seems (from looking at their website) that they have a lot of services (comparably). She did mention that they had excess supplies, so lack of supplies was not a reason they closed. She also mentioned that they did have Red Cross help at the time. We may find that a lot of the temporary shelters that were set up are closing because people can go home. Obviously, that's not true everywhere; I guess it depends on how hard the particular area was hit. I'll be happy to call her for further information, and at Terra's suggestion, follow up on the other counties. Deb Terra asks what they mean by "can go home". Our reports say there are few buildings left standing. ->
region: Gulf Coast -> Gulf
status: Closed -> Standby
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facility_type: Unassigned Region/Area -> Shelter
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cat_notes: -> Moved old notes LTel 6/8/08: Pamela, I spoke with Kay Coward, the Project Development Specialist for the Choctaw tribal lands (of which Pearl River is a part). I was referred to her by the Pearl River Department of Public Works. She told me that all shelters on Choctaw lands have be closed (which include Pearl River, Bogue Chitto, Conehatta, Tucker, Standing Pine and others). She told me that any excess supplies from the closed shelters were sent to several inland counties, since they are not being served by Red Cross or FEMA as quickly as the coastal regions. The inland Mississippi counties she mentioned as being "underserved" are: Clark Jasper Forest Jones Smith I notice that government offices tend to refer to "counties" instead of townships. I don't know if that's relevant to the database project, but I thought I'd mention it. I didn't enter any information into the database, since I could not locate any shelters in Pearl River. Please let me know if you have another area you want me to research. (Unfortunately, I'll be away Friday-Monday for holiday.) Deb Pamela asks why shelters are closed. I'll check with her, but my impression was that people were able to return to homes. That particular region is one of the largest Native American reservations, and it seems (from looking at their website) that they have a lot of services (comparably). She did mention that they had excess supplies, so lack of supplies was not a reason they closed. She also mentioned that they did have Red Cross help at the time. We may find that a lot of the temporary shelters that were set up are closing because people can go home. Obviously, that's not true everywhere; I guess it depends on how hard the particular area was hit. I'll be happy to call her for further information, and at Terra's suggestion, follow up on the other counties. Deb Terra asks what they mean by "can go home". Our reports say there are few buildings left standing.
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