The federal government must come in and provide funding for food, clothing and medical care in each place they're going to.

Most of these people don't have jobs to go back to because New Orleans is gone. They're going to have to come up with a system to get money coming in so they can maintain themselves.

You could call it a mini-diaspora. The people in New Orleans, the people along the Gulf really had a culture. In many ways, they have been thrown out of the Garden of Eden, if you will. It's a diaspora brought on for people with no resources.

State and local officials there are dealing with the beginning of recovery efforts. It's possible the teams will go to Texas [after the hurricane hits], but they'd probably come back to Delaware first.

If my grandmother were a food, she would probably be vegetable soup. She is made up of a lot of different ingredients, and when you put them all together, it creates something warm and wonderful.

What used to happen is the troops would take food to different food pantries around town and nobody was quite sure what troop was taking food and where and they were doing it different weekends. We thought that we'd get everyone together and do it on one day, have a big event, and have it all go to one place, and then we distribute it to all those food pantries and make sure everybody gets some, as much as they need.