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They scrounged for clean blankets, saline and other emergency medical supplies in the dusty and mud-caked camp.

“It shouldn’t be. You shouldn’t scrounge to save money to go somewhere and be told you’ll be put on a waiting list. That should not happen, but it does.”

In the end, the Sheriff’s Department said it scrounged up nearly 100 buses, borrowing from nearby counties, the state prison system and the local public transit system in case the winds shifted.

Broke and missing his passport but infused with a traveler’s spirit, Khalid scrounges for odd jobs — restaurant work, cleaning the marina, painting someone’s boat — to make enough money to fly back.

Who scrounged to build her home and start a small business, struggled to meet a payroll and was forced to deal with clueless bureaucrats.