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Tent cities put up stakes in Beaumont
By Dan Wallach , September 18, 2008, Beaumont Enterprise
David Seyler tooled around Babe Zaharias Park in Beaumont on a golf cart, weaving around parked truck trailers.
He pointed out which ones are bunkhouses and which are for laundry or showers. He pointed out a pitched tent."We can feed 500 to 1,000 people an hour in there," he said.
Welcome to one of 18 such sites around Southeast Texas, where Entergy Texas has created small cities to support its 14,000 restoration workers.
These are the sites the utility workers in the neighborhoods depend on for sleeping, their meals, their laundry, and everything else that an army in the field needs to survive.
Crews still cooking, delivering meals in New Orleans
Written by Lesly C. Simmons , Staff Writer and Photographer, RedCross.org
Thursday, March 02, 2006 — NEW ORLEANS – Six months after Hurricane Katrina, the American Red Cross is still on the scene meeting the needs of residents trying to rebuild in and around New Orleans. Every night, a crew of more than 20 prepare meals from 2 a.m. until 7 or 8 a.m. when more than 20 Red Cross emergency response vehicles (ERVs) show up to pick up the food for delivery After all this time, the Red Cross is still handing out nearly 10,000 meals every day from those ERVs—every day except for Fat Tuesday.
After the Storm, June 2009, Marion, Illinois
WKIL 3 News, Marion, IL
Winter Storm '09, Crews Working Hard Churchill Downs
WHAS 11 News, Louisville, KY
Winter Storms, Utility Workers Staging at Churchill Downs
WLKY 32 News, Louisville, KY