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Monday, August 31, 1992
HURRICANE ANDREW
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Bush increases aid, troops to hurricane battered-Florida
President prepared to ask Congress for more money
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON D.C. — President Bush ordered an additional 5,000 military troops to hurricane-battered Florida on Saturday and released $300 million to speed the delivery of emergency services.
Bush's decision means that the total number of federal military personnel will soar to 19,500.
After being briefed on Hurricane Andrew relief efforts, Bush announced that he was making $300 million available to speed delivery of services by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency and the Small Business Association. He also said that he was allocating $127.2 million for emergency food stamps for residents of Dade County.
Bush said that he would ask Congress for as much money as is necessary to respond to the human needs in Florida, as well as Louisiana and Guam.
"It's a massive problem of coordination and distribution, but I am determined that we will get on top of it and that we will see these problems," Bush said. "It's not easy but we're
moving with a lot of effort here, a lot of people to get the job done."
Maj. John Gen. John Heldstab said the increase was recommended after commanders in Florida made a further assessment of the area's needs.
Asked about criticism that the federal government took too long to respond, Bush said that there was no delay. The military started planning immediately and that there was no point trying to dig up difficulty between government agencies, he said.
Told that Democratic presidential
nominee Bill Clinton had suggested that the federal response should be looked into, Bush said, "I don't respond to Governor Clinton on these matters. We have a national emergency here and we're trying to get this job done."
An estimated 63,000 people in Florida were destroyed when Hurricane Andrew struck on Aug.24. Some 180,000 people were left homeless. At least 32 people died.
The Army had said as recently as Friday that about 7,000 troops would be needed for the relief and recovery effort in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Hurricane Andrew's grim toll
The Pentagon sent more aid this weekend to south Florida. Total damage is estimated at $20-30 billion.
Military aid
Shelter: 1,250 tents that sleep 20 people
each; 25,000 cots; 50,000 blankets
supplies sent from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba
National Guard: 3,000 troops on patrol
Army: 2,000 to 5,000 troops dispatched from Fort Bragg, N.C.
Cleanup in Florida slowly continues
Damage
Deaths: At least 18: 13 in Florida, four in the Bahamas, one in Louisiana
Power: Remains in 400,000 homes and businesses in South Florida, 167,000
Homeless: 250,000; 39,000 in Red Cross shelters in Florida, 45,000 in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas
heat, rain and food shortages
The Associated Press
PERRINE, Fla. — Pastors and churchgoers heard messages of hope and thanks Sunday in Hurricane Andrew's aftermath, while hundreds of thousands sought relief from heat, rain and food shortages.
ands seek relief from
Home destroyed: 63,000
Source: Knight-Ridgitt Ribbon  Sean M. Tevis / KANSAN
Platoons of volunteers were joined by more U.S. soldiers called out by President Bush. Troops in cargo planes and helicopters reached the heavily damaged areas, carrying tents, clothing, water, ice and can openers.
Health officials feared disease because of a lack of clean water and rotting food and garbage covered by swarms of mosquitoes, while disorganization caused by the massive, sometimes overzealous relief effort.
Tempers flared in the 90-degree heat
"I'm hot, I'm tired," said Gwen Bullock, an official from hit-fired Florida City who lost her home and has been sleeping in the trailer that now serves as City Hall. "Mwire is getting shorter and shorter."
Homes destroyed: 63,000
"I can't even get hold of the front gate." Anderson
Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Mike Anderson, trying to get a supply-filled plane unloaded at Tamiami Airport, said, "I'll follow anybody who's in charge. But we need somebody in charge right now!"
An Army Chinook helicopter also sat on the runway, waiting to be unloaded. The aircraft was loaded with bottled water, fruit juice, ice tea, and pallets of charcoal and charcoal liquid flutter.
said.
He complained that the various military, government and local authorities were operating on differ-
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Gordon Sullivan arrived from Washington to tour the disaster zone with military supply and logistics commanders. He assured testy local officials in Homestead that he would improve communications.
The first "ent cities," promised since Friday, would begin to go up Sunday night, Sullivan said, adding that other supplies were coming.
Few rested Sunday, the seventh day since Andrew swept through south Florida.
Religious and political leaders tried to rally spirits.
Gov. Lawton Chiles, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Roman Catholic Archbishop Edward McCarthy of Miami were among those who spoke to congregations.
"I think that's right — it's going to be even better," Chiles said to a chorus of "Amen!"
Authorities said four disaster-aid field offices were open and 11 more were being set up yesterday. About 160 miles of road had been cleared, and
"Somebody said this area will never be the same," Chiles said as sunlight streamed through a hole in the roof of the otherwise dark Bethel Baptist Church in Richmond Heights.
Jackson told a congregation, "After the flood, there is reconstruction."
He urged that Florida's poor and immigrants be put to work rebuilding.
Banks and check-cashing services opened yesterday and distribution of government checks began in the disaster area. Letter carriers made rare Sunday home deliveries in other parts of Dade County
More than two inches of rain fell on some of the ravaged areas Saturday, and scattered thundershows hit South Florida again yesterday, adding to the misery of living in a house with no roof.
all primary roads were open.
By midday, Florida City still had not received the promised Army tents to house up to 2,500 homeless.
The hurricane was blamed for 33 deaths in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas.
"It is much more severe than anybody had thought it was initially, and I would say, considering the circumstances... we've done a very good, commendable job." Quayle said.
In Louisiana, the storm caused some $400 million in damage, destroying or damaging an estimated 8,000 homes and displacing 25,000 people. More than 63,000 remained without power yesterday.
Hurricane Andrew, which stormed ashore in Florida early Aug. 24, left about 180,000 people without shelter and caused damage estimated as high as $20 billion. Officials said at least 63,000 homes were destroyed, and more than 600,000 people had no power.
On the CBS-TV program Face the Nation, Vice President Dan Quayle said the federal government, which had been criticized for moving too slowly, had done a good job.
Aftermath of storm endangers elderly
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Three elderly people who died while being evacuated from their Dade County nursing home may be the first such fatalities from Hurricane Andrew and its aftermath, nursing home managers said.
More than 700 nursing home residents were displaced when at least 10 nursing homes were severely damaged or destroyed by the hurricane Aug. 24, the Florida Health Care Association said. About 10,000 more elderly who lived alone may be homeless as well and their normal service services, such as the corner store, are gone, said Dade County's Alliance for Aging.
With no electricity and scarce fuel for generators to keep life-support systems running, even nursing homes that escaped destruction have been hard-pressed to provide for patients.
360,000 people over 60 years old and about 18 percent of them live at or below the poverty level. Those people are particularly in danger, said Debbie Kleinberg, program director of the alliance.
Dade County has more than
The three who died were among 174 residents who waited out the storm in the corridors of the building and said administrator Jim Conway.
Manuel Rodriguez, 69, Fannie Lytle, 44, and Anice Berett, 81, survived while wind and rain stripped their rooms bare, but succumbed to heart complications Aug. 24 during an evacuation on county buses that took 18 hours, according to coroner's reports.
"None of them were in strong physical states to begin with," Conway said. "That was part of the reason for us being at the facility during the storm. Under the best of circumstances, there is going to be some transfer trauma — and to do it under the circumstances we did, I'm heartbroken."
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