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UPDATE: Shelters set up for those without power

Posted by Sarah Harlan - email

TRI-STATE (WFIE) - For those without power and needing a warm place to stay, shelters have been set up at Buck Creek Baptist Church in McLean County, Owensboro Christian Church in Daviess County, and First United Methodist Church in Hopkins County.

As well as the American Red Cross on Stockwell Road in Evansville.

The Red Cross of Southwestern Indiana has been inundated with phone calls from residents needing a place to stay.

Red Cross workers are welcoming families to our shelter at 29 S. Stockwell Road.

Residents will be served lunch, have a warm place to stay, shower facilities and access to television and entertainment.

Any residents needing shelter should bring a pillow, blanket and any medication that is needed.

Red Cross will also open a shelter at the Vanderburgh County 4-H Center Auditorium at 5p.m. on Thursday. 

For more information on the shelter call 471-7200.

The Red Cross Chapter in Henderson, KY is opening a shelter at 10:30pm for residents without power.

The shelter is opening at the Housing Authority on 111 South Adams Street.

At the request of the Hopkins County Emergency Management Office, the Red Cross will open a shelter for those people who may lose heat in their homes due to power outages.  

Persons needing shelter for the evening should report to First United Methodist Church, 200 East Center St., Madisonville.  

You are encouraged to bring your medications, personal hygiene supplies and a pillow and blanket.  

There will be no provision available for pets.

"We will keep the shelter open as long as there is a need" said Jeanie Barnett, Executive Director of the Mid-west Kentucky Chapter. "We cannot predict these kinds of storms or if the need for shelter will develop. Our volunteers and staff will be standing by if anyone needs us."