I encouraged them to give money to the Red Cross anyway, because giving money to hurricane victims is a nice thing to do, and in the end, more than 25,000 dollars was indeed donated to the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Los animé a donar dinero a la Cruz Roja, de todas formas, porque donar dinero a víctimas de huracanes es algo positivo, y, al final, se donaron más de USD 25.000 a la Cruz Roja para labores de socorro del huracán Katrina.