Donated clothing piles up in Rockport, but tools, tarps and cleaning supplies are needed

[TexasTowelie]

ROCKPORT — No one knows exactly when it started.

In the chaotic days following Hurricane Harvey, donations and volunteers started arriving in the devastated coastal town.

Mounds of donated clothes started piling up in parking lots across Rockport. These lots were not designated drop-off donation sites, but people kept dropping them off.

It has created more refuse in a city that's already inundated with tree and house debris.

Read more: http://www.caller.com/story/weather/hurricanes/2017/09/15/donated-clothing-piles-up-rockport-but-tools-tarps-more-needed/663043001/

[missingthebigdog]

1. People are always more than happy to donate clothes

I accompanied an organization to Tijuana in the nineties, helping deliver food to some centers that they had set up to feed children. I encountered some of the best dressed poor people in the world.

When asked for donations, people will not hesitate to hand over the contents of their closet.

The contents of their wallet is an entirely different matter.

[WhiteTara]

2. Same situation after Katrina.