Helping to Find Temporary Homes for People Displaced by Hurricane Ike

So we have been working at a FEMA JFO. A JFO is Joint Field Office where FEMA/we process disaster information and find apartment complexes that have vacancies for people who got displaced by Hurricane Ike. The JFO is located in Austin, TX at Highland Mall in what ust to be a JC Penny's. We are staying at an extended stay hotel. We have also inprocessed other teams that have come through so that they can work with FEMA at the DRC's. A DRC is a Disaster Recovery Center, where we hand out MRE's (meals ready to eat), ice, water, and we also register people to get help from FEMA. Fourth round – our last project - is coming to an end in about three weeks and I am excited but at the same time I am sad, because I am going to miss everybody that I have met and become friends with.