According to a friend of mine who works for a suicide prevention hotline in the San Francisco Bay Area, her supervisor has been transferred to New Orleans because: "It seems they are getting over 30,000 calls a day on the crisis lines there because FEMA keeps rolling callers over to the suicide prevention lines."
Yow!
Weeks after the disaster FEMA still can't deal with the call volume and so is clogging up the suicide hotlines. This is only hearsay right now of course. Is there anyone out there who can confirm this? If it is indeed true, then it deserves some publicity as a further example of the incompetence of FEMA. Enough publicity and they might even hire the staff they seen to answer the darn phones.