Storm evacuees' move from GRB on hold

HOUSTON – Evacuees continue to say the conditions at the George R. Brown Center are unfavorable, but now their lives are kind of up in the air as none of them know where they will end up.

A Red Cross flyer handed out Thursday stating they were moving to a new shelter on Hempstead Road on Friday.

"Then today, they said that the shelter had not met city of Houston's inspection," said evacuee, Savannah McCormick.

A volunteer only allowed KPRC2 to view the new flyer, which said the move was on "pause."

"They’re not just going to push us right back out on the streets, but still they just keep us in limbo,” Earl Wyrick said.

McCormick said when the GRB opened as a shelter at the end of August, conditions were fine.

"The past week, they've taken out the showers, they've taken and cut the food down. We don't really get the services we should be getting here being that we're victims of Harvey," Wyrick said.

One of the big sticking points has been the food.

While the Red Cross stated that they provide three nutritious meals a day -- one evacuee was not happy about her breakfast Friday.

"I picked the yogurt out (of) the line, two of them to eat, and this is what I get,? C'mon now, seriously? Who wants to eat moldy yogurt?" the evacuee said.

The number of people at the shelter has gone down dramatically since it opened, leaving Wyrick, a self-proclaimed "chronically homeless person," feeling left out.

"Some of us -- our lives were a disaster before the disaster, but then again, we all came into the same place so it feels like they're separating us, and they're not going to do for us what they would do for the majority of the people that were here," Wyrick said.

KPRC2 contacted the Red Cross Friday morning for comment on all of the allegations being made at the GRB and where evacuees will be moved.

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