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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Sep 17 2004
Kudos To Hurricane Relief Workers
As yet another storm is churning toward the East Coast, Ask Jeeves and the American Red Cross are partnering to help those dealing with the aftermath of this hurricane season.
One of my other favorite disaster relief organizations, ADRA, has been hard at work in Cuba, helping to clean up and to repair damage to homes, schools and agricultural property.
Salvation Army teams have been busy in Florida and are trying to rest and regroup between storms.
Other groups have been busy too. Southern Baptist units are feeding people in shelters and at worker staging areas. Churches themselves have become shelters and staging areas, after many on the coasts had to flee their homes.
Even canine workers have been on alert for extra duty.
I couldn't find one word of bragging on their web site, but I hear from other sources that Knight Transportation is one of many businesses who have helped. They have been donating the use of their refrigerated trucks from the Charlotte, North Carolina area, to get food and supplies to affected areas.
Countless military personnel, law enforcement officers, fire fighters and utility workers have been on overtime and then some. Medical workers are taking extra shifts to care for patients, sometimes with only backup power sources to assist them.
And even though we all kid about the news folks being the last to stand out in the storm (and them loving every minute of it), they really do perform an invaluable service as people huddle around a portable TV or radio to catch bits of information about their neighborhood or their loved ones being affected by these storms.
When this hurricane season is finally over, there's something else we can all do. We can keep giving to organizations that help in disasters, because their resources are going to be stretched to the breaking point. And if we can throw some tourism dollars into the affected areas later on, I'm sure it will be much appreciated.
posted at: 08:00 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
As yet another storm is churning toward the East Coast, Ask Jeeves and the American Red Cross are partnering to help those dealing with the aftermath of this hurricane season.
One of my other favorite disaster relief organizations, ADRA, has been hard at work in Cuba, helping to clean up and to repair damage to homes, schools and agricultural property.
Salvation Army teams have been busy in Florida and are trying to rest and regroup between storms.
Other groups have been busy too. Southern Baptist units are feeding people in shelters and at worker staging areas. Churches themselves have become shelters and staging areas, after many on the coasts had to flee their homes.
Even canine workers have been on alert for extra duty.
I couldn't find one word of bragging on their web site, but I hear from other sources that Knight Transportation is one of many businesses who have helped. They have been donating the use of their refrigerated trucks from the Charlotte, North Carolina area, to get food and supplies to affected areas.
Countless military personnel, law enforcement officers, fire fighters and utility workers have been on overtime and then some. Medical workers are taking extra shifts to care for patients, sometimes with only backup power sources to assist them.
And even though we all kid about the news folks being the last to stand out in the storm (and them loving every minute of it), they really do perform an invaluable service as people huddle around a portable TV or radio to catch bits of information about their neighborhood or their loved ones being affected by these storms.
When this hurricane season is finally over, there's something else we can all do. We can keep giving to organizations that help in disasters, because their resources are going to be stretched to the breaking point. And if we can throw some tourism dollars into the affected areas later on, I'm sure it will be much appreciated.
posted at: 08:00 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
