The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in the clothes they were wearing, and then had to live in them for days at the convention center. They smelled like urine, feces, and death, but they had to wait in line to be processed and then find a bed and then they could take a shower.
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