Together Baton Rouge launched a survey yesterday at LAfloodsurvey.com to assess people's flood damage and immediate needs. 

The responses we've received have been overwhelming, including major immediate needs for clothes, underwear/ bras, bottles, food, bedding/blow-up mattresses, medicine, water, etc.

One important stat -- 98% of people who responded to the survey are *not* staying in shelters. They're on couches and floors of friends or family, in hotels. In other words, they're dispersed and not receiving many of the resources that are being donated, which (appropriately) are going mostly to shelters.

We've determined that the fastest, most effective way to meet these immediate needs is also the most simple -- to put in Amazon Prime orders for basic necessities, which will be delivered directly to people the next day. (We have people's evacuated addresses from the survey.)

We need three things in the immediate future to make this work. Any help or suggestions you may have around these would be much appreciated.

#1) Donations: You can make donations to this effort at https://togetherbr.nationbuilder.com/donate. 

We started putting in Amazon orders today. We'll keep at it until we run out of money.

Need #2) Volunteers at the TBR office this week to call and follow-up with people who responded to the survey