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Hurricane Dennis
Recovery Efforts

November 2005

 Hurricane Dennis
During the months following Hurricane Dennis making landfall in Northwest Florida, the Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross continued to provide assistance to individuals and families who were suffering due to the closure of Apalachicola Bay to seafood harvesting.

This photo expose shows the activities undertaken by the chapter on the Wednesday November 23 2005, the day before Thanksgiving. The chapter's Disaster Services Volunteers spent the day distribution 5,500 shelf stable meal boxes to seafood workers and their families who had been out of work for almost five months.

Hurricane Dennis The truck carrying the shelf stable meals arrives and the chapter's Disaster Services Volunteers begin to unload the pallets.
Hurricane Dennis A total of 22 pallets had to be off loaded.
Hurricane Dennis The meals then had to be transferred by hand to the Distribution Point because the ground was too soft for the forklift to travel over.
Hurricane Dennis Inmates from the Franklin County Correctional Institution helped to move the meals, one at a time.
Hurricane Dennis The meal boxes were then labeled to identify them as Disaster Relief Supplies and not to be sold.
Hurricane Dennis The last box has been transferred to the Distribution Point.
Hurricane Dennis Seafood workers and their families arrive and begin the interview process.
Hurricane Dennis Disaster Services Volunteers from the Capital Area Chapter meet one on one with each individual seeking assistance to determine their eligibility and the extend of their need.
Hurricane Dennis The casework team.
Hurricane Dennis Meeting the need one family at a time.
Hurricane Dennis A grateful seafood worker, with meal boxes in hand, thanks the casework team as a report from Channel 6 films.
Hurricane Dennis The Distribution Point!
Hurricane Dennis The Inventory!
Hurricane Dennis Lots of Boxes!
Hurricane Dennis Distribution of the meal boxes was conducted between 11:00AM and 3:00PM.
Hurricane Dennis The meal boxes continue to move out.
Hurricane Dennis By helping to carry meal boxes, Disaster Services Volunteers kept the Distribution Point from getting over crowded by individuals seeking assistance.
Hurricane Dennis A Disaster Services Volunteer loads meal boxes into the trunk of a car.
Hurricane Dennis The chapter's partnership with the America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend (Food Bank) was put into action with the Food Bank transporting two (2) truck loads of additional meal boxes from Tallahassee to Apalachicola. This partnership has been a very productive one throughout the 2005 Hurricane Season.
Hurricane Dennis A Disaster Services Volunteer unloads one of the Food Bank's trucks.
Hurricane Dennis In silhouette Disaster Services Volunteers (foreground) frame the activity of the caseworkers interview seafood workers.

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