Local Red Cross deploys another disaster relief worker

Gail Howatt, a Disaster Action Team Volunteer from Decorah, has been deployed to Memphis, Tennessee to assist with the recent flooding. Currently, the Tri-County Red Cross has four Disaster volunteers in Nashville Tennessee, and one volunteer assisting in Jackson, Mississippi. Gail will be the Supervisor of Health Services. This is her 6th National Disaster Relief Operation Assignment for the Red Cross.

The American Red Cross has opened more than two dozen shelters in response to a powerful weather system that generated tornadoes and caused severe flooding across the South.

Floods are typically long-term relief operations, given that waters can take days to recede and can wreak devastating damage on homes.