Among the volunteers wearing sanitized gloves and picking up trash in the Astrodome, a young girl wearing a pink wrist band had joined the crew. She'd found a broom, dustpan and plastic bag and began sweeping up trash.
"Are you looking for someone?'' she asked upon spotting a reporter watching the names of missing persons flash on a scoreboard - about 10 per minute.
Her name was Doja Dickson, a skinny 9-year-old with long braids who had evacuated from New Orleans with her parents and sister. Her father, Wilbert, his eyes weary but his thin gray beard neatly trimmed, straightened up the family's bags stored on the orange, cushioned seats in the Astrodome grandstand as his daughter swept up trash.
"We already left a mess behind us,'' he said, referring to the devastation in New Orleans. "So we want to keep this place clean.''
-- New Orleans Times-Picayune
These are the people that the freepers call
savages...
- Badtux the "Lost my snark, for the moment" Penguin