Setting up a Resource Hotline

Network participants were invited to use this EDEN page to request resources they had been unable to locate. Consumers were encouraged to seek information first from their state Extension Service (State Directory) . The instructions were simple:

If you have resources on subjects not found in EDEN's hurricane pages, please share.
If you are looking for a resource on a particular subject that has not been addressed, please make us aware of your need.
If you have information that is not published but could be posted here as personal communication, we would also appreciate that.

The following needs for information have been identified and not yet satisfied:

support programs for season migrant workers following a disaster
debris management

Send hurricane RECOVERY resources and requests to aborron@purdue.edu .

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Operation No Fences: Horse and Cattle Relief

The following appeared on the EDEN Hurricane Issues Page "home page" for Hurricane Ike:

As as Result of Hurricane Ike, Chambers County Judge Jimmy Sylvia has request immediate relief to rescue and support 20,000 head of cattle and 100 horses that are free ranging in Chambers, Jefferson and possibly other Texas Gulf Coast counties due to 12'-20' surf surge from Hurricane Ike. These animals have been without food and only have salt water resources. Ninety percent of the fences in the area were destroyed. Estimated cattle losses at this time (September 17, 2008) is 5,000 head. Texas AgriLife Extension Service, or the Texas A&M System, and State Emergency Management Council agency has stood up a resource staging area, feed collection and transportation network to address the most immediate needs. Immediate needs are as follows:

For 12 member project management team on site in Anahuac

Satillite telephone communcations system at staging area
Crews to operate resource staging, in-kind an financial donations management,
Transportation for feed and equipment resouces
8,000 large round bales of hay
150,000 lbs of 20% range cubes
Fork lift and front end loader for off and onloading heavy palettes and baled resources
Metal tubing 600 12'-16' cattle panels
3 Potable water trucks and crew for drafting water from tributaries to deliver to livestock/horses.
Work crew shelter and food support at Ford Center and/or VFW hall in Anahuac
100 portable water troughs
Animal health technical and supplies support
Animal movement/cattle hauling equipment
Cattle handling crew on horseback or motorized equipment