Getting the Run Around

From the local newspaper:

"Flood victims needing Red Cross assistance can visit a "service center" which has opened at Owens Community College in Findlay.
Red Cross case workers will be available there from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.
The center will stay open "until we start to see we're not getting a lot of people coming in," national Red Cross spokesperson Lynn Cook said Sunday."
Everybody is eligible for assistance and we encourage people to come in as soon as they can if they need it," Cook said.
Red Cross assistance "helps people get clothing, food, medications filled and things like that to help get them through the next several days" after a disaster strikes, aid Cook.
According to individual needs, the organization "may give debit cards" to people as financial assistance until personal monetary issues like insurance compensation can be ironed out."

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So we took a drive out there. The lady took a look at me and my daughter,

"You have clean clothes, you don't look like you need food or water. We cannot help you."
*blink *blink.

Slowly her words registered through the stressed neurons. Err, what in the world? I should have showed up barefeet and in torn clothes, even to have a sentence heard. This is the Red Cross?

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Monday, August 27, 2007, still no signs of interests from the insurance company.