•Half of Baton Rouge
households housed evacuees, and 60% of Baton Rougeans did volunteer relief work, most more than once,
and most with faith-based
organizations.
–It is sobering to
think what would have happened to evacuees if private citizens hadn’t provided so much relief: could
government and relief agencies
alone have coped? And given South
Louisiana’s close ties of kinship
and community, it is sobering to think what would happen in a disaster of similar magnitude in a location without
these close social networks.
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•People in Baton Rouge
mainly felt compassion toward evacuees, but there were negative feelings of fear and irritation, too.
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