Final Post

This is the final post for the Hurricane Gustav Online Newsroom. While this is the last post on this site, information regarding the ongoing relief efforts for Hurricanes Gustav and Ike will continue to be populated at www.redcross.org/hurricaneike.

We would like to thank the hard working Red Crossers in the field who made this disaster operation, as well as this website, successful. To all those in the affected areas, we wish you a swift and complete recovery.

National media contacts: Please contact (202) 303-5551 for additional public affairs information.

Local media contacts: Please contact your local chapter for additional public affairs information.

For Red Cross assistance or for any other inquiries, please contact 1-800-RED-CROSS.

Video: Eli Manning PSAs

Broadcast quality versions of these PSAs

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Video: Gulf Coast Storms

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Video: What to expect when you go to a Red Cross shelter

“a safe place to get away from the storm”

Video: Testomonial from a Gustav Client

“When you come back after a hurricane there are no stores. Like now, I need lunch and they provide that.”

Video: Press Conference at the Disaster Administrative HQ in Baton Rouge 9.9.08

Supriya Jindal, First Lady of Louisiana, presented a $27,000 check to the Red Cross on behalf of the First Lady of Guam. The donation will go to help victims of Louisiana after Hurricane Gustav. Mrs. Jindal held a press conference Tuesday at the Red Cross Disaster Administrative Headquarters in Baton Rouge, LA and then proceeded to a Southern Baptist kitchen site where she was able to meet many volunteers from Kansas, Illinois and Nebraska.

Video: First Lady Jindal with Mobile Feeding Trucks, Louisiana 9.6.2008