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It very well may not be as some have indicated at the Astrodome. I know that at our local shelter, we have asked people to hold off on clothing, etc. because we had no place to store it (now we do, at a local newspaper office). We had enough food for a week, and no place to store more, and didn't want anything to go bad, so we started taking names for volunteers later on, as this will be a long term effort. Someone asked if they could do a benefit program/concert of local talent, and were asked to hold off for a couple of weeks, maybe a month, again because enough to care for the folks was available NOW, but it's a long term effort and more will be needed.
Of course, now there is a setting for extra contributions - a bank has set up a fund - but right there at the beginning, there was enough and a setup for storage was not available.
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