Houston, TX Aids Hurricane Katrina Victims

"Up to 23,000 refugees from New Orleans' Superdome will board buses and head to Houston's Astrodome, leaving behind a city that's deteriorating by the hour....the refugees are expected to arrive as early as tonight and the last within 40 hours....American Red Cross spokeswoman said evacuees may stay in the Astrodome for months....People may not be able to rebuild."

The Red Cross has opened 12 shelters in the Greater Houston area to help disaster victims forced from their homes by Hurricane Katrina.

Also a Red Cross information Hotline number regarding locations of shelters is available for Hurricane Katrina victims. Call Red Cross 1-(866) GET-INFO.

Houstonians open homes and hearts to evacuees.
Many people here have called the American Red Cross, offering to open their homes.

A large family have ended up in the Westlake Volunteer Fire Department in Katy, a suburb of Houston. About 63 family members from New Orleans are now camped out on the fire station's floor.

Texas schools open doors to refugee students and began preparing today to accept masses of newly homeless children whose families fled Louisiana and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

How to help the refugees coming to Houston.

Local CBS affiliate, KHOU TV, has launched a hurricane relief fund telethon. To donate call 713-284-8877. Phones are currently being staffed by Houston employees of Shell Oil. Shell Oil corporate headquarters has made a donation of $2 million, and with match up to an additional $1 million in donations.

Personal donations for victims of Katrina can be made through the American Red Cross and Salvation Army.

Instapundit has a growing list of charities accepting donations.

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--LynZee

Update: Via Michelle Malkin -- TTLB has set up a registration page for bloggers who want to participate in the Hurricane Katrina Blog Relief Day fundraiser.

Update: Sept. 1 -- The state of Texas agrees to triple to 75,000 the number of evacuees being taken in from Louisiana. Some are being housed in Houston's Astrodome, others are relocating to San Antonio or Dallas.