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After Katrina: Love's open arms
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
On the Saturday after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, my wife Joanne and our oldest son Jarrod helped collect food and water being brought to a local TV station here in Corpus Christi, Texas. These items were being donated in response to the station’s appeal on behalf of people affected by the hurricane.
At 1 PM, as they were finishing their shift, Joanne learned from a Salvation Army worker that evacuees from New Orleans were at that moment arriving at the city coliseum. While there had been reports that some evacuees might come to our city by Monday, they arrived early without any advance notice to the public.
Joanne called me immediately. She had experienced three catastrophic hurricanes here on the Texas coast and knew what items would be needed. We shopped for towels, toothpaste and brushes, shampoo and other hygienic items, and headed to the coliseum.
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