Hurricane Ike is bearing down on the Gulf Coast, but Tennessee will not be helping potential evacuees this time.
Hurricane Gustav sent more than 6-thousand Gulf Coast residents to Tennessee seeking shelter. The last of them just went home this weekend. Tennessee Emergency Management Agency Spokesman Jeremy Heidt says the state needs a week or two to regroup.
“What we do then is recover our facilities by doing maintenance as well as cleaning, and then we re-stock and re-supply them, as well as rest the persons who activated for that emergency.”
TEMA operated 33 shelters for Hurricane Gustav. While the state sits out Hurricane Ike, Hiedt says with the bank of storms rolling in behind Ike, Tennessee’s help will be needed in the coming weeks.
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