IMG_4412. September 16, 2008. Melissa Jade Hallhelps her best friend, Debbie Mayo, out of her cot at the Red Cross shelter in the George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas.  They barely survived Hurricane Ike.

IMG_4138. September 16, 2008. Nuria Cerda is consoled by a Red Cross volunteer at the Red Cross shelter in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.  Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross

IMG_4148.  September 16, 2008. Nuria Cerda, worried and exhausted, is staying at the Red Cross shelter in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.  Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross

IMG_4101.  September 16, 2008.  Nuria Cerda sheds tears at the Red Cross shelter in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross

IMG_4217.  September 16, 2008. Nuria Cerda receives a meal at the Red Cross shelter in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.  Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross

IMG_4289. September 16, 2008. After being in the hospital for 3 days, Debbie Mayo rests at the Red Cross shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.  Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross

IMG_4326.  September 16, 2008. Melissa Jade Hall is overcome with emotion after barely surviving Hurricane Ike.  She is staying at the American Red Cross shelter in the George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas.  Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross

4470. September 16, 2008. Doloras Lozano delivers water to Shirley Corbin at the Red Cross shelter in the George R. Brown Convention Center Houston, Texas. Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross

IMG_4522.  September 16, 2008. Jerry Gutierrez sits on his cot at the Red Cross shelter at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.  Talia Frenkel/American Red Cross

5198 Red Cross volunteers Allen Morris, Phyllis Brown and Reed Wakeley distribute food to heavily hit homes where residents have been let back in to begin the clean up process and salvage belongings. 

5266 Red Cross volunteer Phyllis Brown beside a heavily destroyed home. 

5378 Flooded bedroom, Galveston, TX.

5430 Luis Alonzo speaks with a Mexican Red Cross volunteer who has come to Galveston to aid in distributing meals on an American Red Cross Emergency Response vehicle.

5485 Teddy Lopez receives water from Mexican Red Cross volunteers who have come to Galveston to aid in distributing meals on American Red Cross Emergency Response vehicles.

5546 Mexican Red Cross volunteers hand out meals from an Emergency Response vehicle in Galveston, TX.

5848 Mexican Red Cross volunteers hand out meals from an Emergency Response vehicle in Galveston, TX.

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