Of water until the water ran out. And after spending their day like this in 90degree temperatures, many were turned away from the Distribution Event at hawkins airfield. The director of the state Emergency Management says seven Distribution Sites will be set up by thursday. In the meantime, people turned to stores where the shelves are nearly bare. Its very frustrating. Its very frustrating to have to fight for some water, you know what im saying. You got to mess around and buy five cases of water just to stay hyd hydrated. Reporter its just kind of scary. We dont know when anythings going to get done. You come in the store and its empty. Water were talking about. Lets back up and talk about how we got here. Moderate flooding in jackson, mississippi, crippled the citys largest Water Facility. National guard troops trained for the devastation of hurricanes, theyve been deployed, but this is not a disaster, some once in a lifetime storm. American citizens in 2022 struggling for the most
of water until the water ran out. and after spending their day like this in 90-degree temperatures, many were turned away from the distribution event at hawkins airfield. the director of the state emergency management says seven distribution sites will be set up by thursday. in the meantime, people turned to stores where the shelves are nearly bare. it s very frustrating. it s very frustrating to have to fight for some water, you know what i m saying. you got to mess around and buy five cases of water just to stay hyd hydrated. reporter: it s just kind of scary. we don t know when anything s going to get done. you come in the store and it s empty. water we re talking about. let s back up and talk about how we got here. moderate flooding in jackson, mississippi, crippled the city s largest water facility. national guard troops trained for the devastation of hurricanes, they ve been deployed, but this is not a disaster, some once in a lifetime storm. american citizens i
council member aaron banks and cassandra welchland. she s a social work trer tryingo help her neighbors and a mother of three trying to get her family through this crisis. cassandra, let me start with you and how your family is dealing with this. thank you, victor, for having me. so our family today we ve been, you know, working to just adjust. my children are out of school and we have been having to, of course, buy water to cook, to brush our teeth, to just do the basic necessities that we need in order just to keep our family afloat. so today was online zoom and also feeding our kids at home, but the water was we had low water pressure today. the water was brown when we turned it on this morning. we ve gotten a little bit more pressure as the day has gone on, but it s definitely been of
they have to stay at home, you know, with their families, and so we re talking about child care. so not only are we still coming out of covid, which is an economic security, you know, issue for so many families, we re still here trying to provide those kinds of resources. people don t have $1,000 saved up to be able to meet the crises that is before us, and so community has been doing this for two years now, coming to our own rescue, and so we will continue to do that, but definitely as aaron said, the state must kick in the money, the resources so that we can get our infrastructure fixed. there certainly needs to be a fix. i mean, every human deserves clean water, and the people there in jackson pay taxes so they re paying for that water. councilman aaron banks, cassandra welchland, i thank you