Over 1,000 Remain Missing A Week After Hurricane Michael

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Most of those missing are from Panama City and many are elderly, disabled, impoverished, or live alone, officials said.

Teams made up of hundreds of volunteers with the Houston-based CrowdSource Rescue organization were searching for more than 1,135 people in Florida who lost contact with friends and family, Matthew Marchetti, co-founder of Houston-based CrowdSource Rescue.

The death toll includes 17 in Florida, one in Georgia, three in North Carolina and six in Virginia, according to a Reuters tally of official reports. Officials said medical examiners were determining whether another four deaths in Florida were due to the storm.

About 35,000 Floridians have called Federal Emergency Management Agency seeking help since and the agency has already approved $1 million in assistance for people in those 12 counties, spokesman Ruben Brown in Tallahassee said.

FEMA has distributed about 4.5 million meals, more than 5 million liters of water and 9 million infant-and-toddler kits, he said.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hurricane-michael-missing_us_5bc72b3de4b0d38b5873c701

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1. Were the meals and water distributed to actual people who were storm victims?

Were they distributed to a warehouse or staging area and are sitting? Are they actually going to areas like Panama City and Mexico City that were devastated? Reports from earlier this week said nothing was going to the worst hit areas and people are getting really desperate.

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2. Reminds me of a recent news article re Puerto Rico.

It was two weeks ago or less I read about how several pallets of relief supplies were recently found at the end of an airport runway in Puerto Rico. Given Trump's mismanagement style, I'm sure they were counted as distributed to the needy survivors long ago.