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Andrew Locke and Bob Sullivan

From Sept. 22-27, the posts in this blog about Rita's evacuation and devastation were reported and photographed by Bob Sullivan and Andrew Locke. Sullivan, 37, is MSNBC.com's technology and consumer fraud reporter. Locke, 34, in charge of MSNBC.com's editorial strategy, was on his second hurricane blog tour.

David Friedman and Miguel Llanos

From Sept. 18-22, the posts in this blog, examining Katrina's impact on the environment, were reported and photographed by Miguel Llanos and David Friedman. Llanos, 45, is MSNBC.com's environmental reporter. Photojournalist Friedman, 35, is a multimedia producer at MSNBC.com.

Kari Huus and Jim Seida

From Sept. 10-16, the posts in this blog were reported and photographed by Kari Huus and Jim Seida. Huus, 43, has been a journalist for 20 years and a reporter with MSNBC.com since 1996. Seida, 39, has been a media editor with the Web site since 1996.

Mike Brunker and Andrew Locke mugshot

From Sept. 2-9, the posts in this blog were reported and photographed by Mike Brunker, left, and Andrew Locke. A journalist for 25 years, Brunker, 49, is MSNBC.com's West Coast news editor. Locke, 34, has been a journalist for 17 years and is currently in charge of MSNBC.com's editorial media strategy.

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WHERE ARE SUPPLIES NEEDED?

Posted: Saturday, September 3 at 07:58 pm CT by Mike Brunker

HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- An independent trucker with a heart of gold is willing to take a week or more off from his paying gigs to ferry supplies to hurricane-ravaged areas that need them. Just one problem: No one can tell him where such a bottleneck might exist.

John Kretschmer, who already has delivered a truckload of supplies from Raleigh, N.C., to Hattiesburg, figures that there must be supplies in need of transportation much closer in. That would allow him to make three or four roundtrips in the time that he could make another journey to Raleigh and back.

Unfortunately, Kretschmer tells us, Red Cross officials he’s talked to here have no idea where such an idled shipment might be found.

"They know what they’ve got and what they need here, but they have no idea what’s going on elsewhere," he says. 

Please post a reply if you know of a collection of relief supplies in need of a motivated driver.

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