As Tropical Storm Isaac barrels toward Florida, the Red Cross is getting ready to open dozens of shelters across Sunshine State.
Friday morning, trained disaster workers Betsy LeClair and Joel O'Connell with the Northeast Wisconsin Chapter of the Red Cross left from Austin Straubel Airport in Green Bay to head to Tampa.
They're among 600 Red Cross volunteers across the country who have taken emergency response training classes to prepare to provide disaster relief.
"When Katrina hit, it was an eye opener for everybody.? The government and all these private associations and everything," said O'Connell.? "It's better to be well prepared and not have to use your facilities than it is to try and scrape things together at the height of the storms."
Disaster workers James and Joyce of Fond du Lac also headed down to Florida to provide relief during the storm.
The Red Cross says it has 22 emergency response vehicles already in Florida and 28 more are headed to the state in preparation for the storm.? They have dozens more on stand-by.?
Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to hit the Dominican Republic and Haiti Friday.? It's expected to hit Cuba by the weekend and become a hurricane by Monday as it makes landfall in Tampa.
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