Nine Iowans with the American Red Cross will leave Friday for Tampa, Florida, as Hurricane Isaac is expect to hit next week, KCRG-TV reported.
Forecasters said Tropical Storm Isaac probably won't be tagged a hurricane until Monday, when it reaches the Gulf of Mexico.
Volunteer Linda Sutherland, of Marion, packed her bags Thursday night not knowing yet where she will be in a few days.
"We leave home, not sure where we will end up, we just know we will be in a safe Red Cross environment," she told KCRG-TV.?
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the latest five-day forecast shows the storm shifting to the west. That path would have it make landfall possibly near the Alabama-Mississippi border.
But Hurricane Center forecaster Eric Blake said it's too early to pinpoint the course, and he said Florida's Gulf Coast is still in the forecast area. That is worrying organizers of the Republican National Convention, which opens Monday in Tampa.
"I have to admit, I've never been in a hurricane so I am a little bit nervous about that part," Sutherland told KCRG-TV.
Watching disaster unfold on TV spurred Sutherland to volunteer.
"When 9/11 hit, I sat on the couch for a month and cried, I thought I am not a police man, I am not a fireman, I am not a nurse. How could I possibly be of value, same thing when Katrina happened," said Sutherland.
The trip to Florida will be Sutherland's seventh trip with the Red Cross.
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