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Moondance
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07-30-2000

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 9:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Moondance a private message Print Post    
Thanks everyone!!!! I will keep you updated. They will be driving straight through til Jackson then stay at a friends, rest a few hours then off to GulfPort.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 9:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Hope that they have a wonderful trip and that the things in that truck bring a lot of comfort to a lot of folks.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 10:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Wow that is a big truck.

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Schoolmarm a private message Print Post    
WhooHoo....glad they have the escort and that they are on their way!

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
My story isn't as big, but I'll tell it anyhow. I posted in another thread about my students organizing a food and clothing drive for displaced Katrina families after I showed them a videotape of th destruction and the voices of the survivors. These are, quite honestly, the best college students I have ever met. Well, they found a local shelter that houses 300 Katrina families and they have taken truckloads of stuff to them. Everything from tops to tampons to tuna.

Well, yesterday they told me that they are going to start tutoring the Katrina kids at this shelter, too! But they'd decided it all without me and they just wanted me to show them how to do it effectively....I of course said that if they were going down there to help the evacuees, I was coming along whether they liked it or not.

I love my students this summer. The session ends Friday and I am going to miss them so much. They have made me cry tears of joy so many times this summer and they've really made me a better instructor (and person) than I was before.

Moondance
Member

07-30-2000

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 9:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Moondance a private message Print Post    
I think that is great Tish!

Update on Cowboy ... they are in Gallup, New Mexico. He didn't sound tired and he loves driving the big truck... Men and their toys LOL. Anyway I can't wait until the families get the goods, it will be so great!

Citruscitygal
Member

08-07-2003

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 11:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Citruscitygal a private message Print Post    
Kudos & blessings to all who are putting mind, body and spirit into helping those in Katrina's path.

Moondance, I've especially appreciated your info on Best Friends. They seem very worthy of my donation.
Wishing Cowboy and company a safe trip to deliver their precious cargo.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 2:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
What great students, Tish!!!!

Faerygdds
Member

08-29-2000

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 6:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Faerygdds a private message Print Post    
OK... I have a story. One of my very dearest friend's Mom is in charge of the Dallas Reunion Arena Shelter for the Red Cross. My friend (who works 60-70 hrs per week at her JOB) has been out there everyday since they made reunion a shelter. She says every time she thinks she wants a break she thinks of how hard her Mom and Dad are working and she heads to Reunion or to run errands that Mom and Dad can't right now.

Last week (Thursday) her mother was sad because the kids were to start school on Friday, but they had no backpacks, school supplies, nothing... So she went out and in 24 hours collected 78 backpacks (NICE ones) and filled them with "age appropriate" supplies.

Yesterday, her parents were 2 of 4 North Texas "Hurricane Heroes" -- a series in the Dallas Morning news. You can see then for yourself at http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/spe/2005/hurricane_heroes/.(Her parents surname is Hendrix, and yes I got permission to post this! lol)

Here is two pics from the backpack drive my friend did.


pile o packs


Stefi and friend

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 6:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Fantastic story, Faery!!!!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 7:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Awwww, that is a great story and wonderful photos, too. Thanks for posting them!

Moondance
Member

07-30-2000

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 7:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Moondance a private message Print Post    
That is AWESOME Faery! What a wonderful story. We are a great group of people here:-)

Thanks Citrus! Best Friends kicks BUTT!

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 7:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
I am so thrilled that the interest hasn't waned for helping the Katrina victims. You all are so amazing! I love all these stories! Thank you for sharing!

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 8:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I love bragging to my non-TVCH friends about all you wonderful people.

Faerygdds
Member

08-29-2000

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 8:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Faerygdds a private message Print Post    
Ok... two short ones... both occurred on Saturday...

I was on the way home from getting my hair done and called Stef to find out what her schedule was going to be (I have a HD i got for her b-day in JULY and have yet to install). She was cleaning out a Dunkin Donuts. LOL So I ask her if she is going to the shelter straight from there and the sales lady just walks away from her! She was shocked and confused until the clerk came back and told her it'll be 12.50 for her donuts. Stef's reply was, "I just bought 20 DOZEN donuts". The lady said, "It's for the shelter, right?" "Yes." "12.50... total" Stefi hands her the 12.50 and the lady says, "And so you know... we're going to be sending donuts and coffee to the shelter for the next 7 days. Thanks for letting us help." Stefi, of course, began to thank them and cry.

So they get the donuts and lunch is in 2 hours... 2 hours pass... 3 hours pass... ... ... at 2:30 and after several failed phone calls to the company that donated the food, she sighs and calls her favorite Chinese restaurant and says, "I've got a minor emergency. I need to feed 85-90 down here at Reunion Arena and I have no food, can you help me?" 45 minutes later they arrived with enough food to feed 150 people-- no charge!"

Stefi is proof that in a time of disaster people want to help, but don't know how... and if you give them a way... they will help. It's astounding the generosity of the people here!

I'll be down there this weekend... can't wait to see what's next, you know?

Rabbit
Animoderator

08-12-2001

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rabbit a private message Print Post    
Very Sad News.

Today a long time board member from New Orleans, WCV63 checked in on the board. She and her family are safe and are staying in Huntington Beach, Ca, but she has learned that her father did not survive the flood.

For those of you who are newer here, WCV63 was a prolific contributor in the early years of the board. Of course I doubt there are any old time members here that don't remember what a terrific poster and person she is.

We have set up a folder for her in the members room for those wishing to pay their respects.

Native_texan
Member

08-24-2004

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
Faery, is more help needed at Reunion Arena for this weekend? My son will be with his dad and I will have a free weekend.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 5:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Here's an article in today's New York Times detailing the many and extraordinarily generous ways corporations have come through for Katrina victims.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/business/14give.html

Here are a few quotes:

General Electric donated a mobile power plant to restore capacity to a fuel transfer station in Louisiana. Emigrant Savings Bank deposited $1,000 into the account of each customer in the areas hardest hit. Employees of Papa John's spent the last week in Biloxi, Miss., in a pizza trailer handing out thousands of six-inch pies.

Georgia Pacific sent 65 truckloads of consumer goods - toilet paper, paper towels, paper plates, cutlery - to relief organizations, more than three times the amount it sent all last year during hurricane season.

In addition to its $17 million in cash donations to relief agencies, Wal-Mart has shipped more than 100 truckloads of goods - diapers, wipes, toothbrushes, even beds - to the Gulf Coast.

Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., whose gift of $1 million has been matched by more than $2 million from employees and the company's foundation, continues to pay the 200 employees who are volunteering at home or around the affected areas.

And something that really hit me:
As Howard P. Milstein, the chief executive of Emigrant Savings, saw it, there was no question but that an outsize gesture was called for. So last week, dismissing the concerns of his advisers, Mr. Milstein ordered that $1,000 be deposited into the accounts of customers living in areas hit hardest by the hurricane.
Mr. Milstein said he had thought there were only a few hundred customers in the area, but when he found out there were closer to a thousand, he stood by his decision.
The bank's total donation - $1 million - cut straight into the company's bottom line. "This would have been profit that we get to keep," Mr. Milstein said.

Read the whole article. Very impressive

Moondance
Member

07-30-2000

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Moondance a private message Print Post    
Cowboy just called and they made it to Jackson Mississippi!!! So they are staying there for the night and heading to GulfPort in the morning. They have BIG day ahead of them:-)

Max
Moderator

08-12-2000

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 9:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
d

Yee haw!

Faerygdds
Member

08-29-2000

Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 7:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Faerygdds a private message Print Post    
Native....

They can always use help down at reunion... just give Ms. Hendrix a call and she'll point you in the right direction. :-)

She's SO nice! :-)

editted to add: I'll see if I can get info or a number from Stefi.

Faerygdds
Member

08-29-2000

Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 7:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Faerygdds a private message Print Post    
OK... Just got off e-mail with Stef. She says to volunteer at the shelter to help the evacuees, you have to call the Dallas Chapter of the Red Cross at 214-678-4800 and take their "crash course" in mass care.

If you want to help the volunteers (which is what I am doing) then you have to be creative, but the Dallas RC should be able to help you out in that capacity as far as what they need.

Stef wanted me to stress that... wait... copy an paste works best... she said...

quote:

Just try to get the point across that this isn't a lemonade stand or a food service line at Thanksgiving, it's mentally draining and has some long term effects on some people, what you see everyday down there is terrible and what you're faced with is terrifying. Red Cross will give them a better idea of what shelter volunteering is like, but it is definitely not for the weak.




And I think that about sums that up, huh?



Native_texan
Member

08-24-2004

Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 8:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Faery, I'll give them a call. I tried to do this at the beginning, but by the time I finally got through to the Red Cross, they were not accepting any more volunteers.

I do understand the toll it can take. In 1994, I was 4-1/2 months pregnant when Lancaster experienced an F4 tornado. While most of my family and myself were spared any damage, there were some who lost everything. A few suffered serious injuries and my great-aunt was one of the 3 people killed. I will never forget that the next day while I was helping relatives pack up what little they had left, I felt Travis move for the very first time. I also learned that until you can see it up close and personal, there is no way you can comprehend the devastation Mother Nature can cause.

While typing this, I also remembered something else. The tornado came through somewhere around 9:40 p.m. Texas National Guard troops were there before the sun came up.

Moondance
Member

07-30-2000

Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Moondance a private message Print Post    
Cowboy had a long day... I think a lot of what he say today really hit him ... he emailed these photos he took with his cell phone on the way to Gulfport. He said it was a devastating sight....



Moondance
Member

07-30-2000

Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 4:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Moondance a private message Print Post    
They got a private tour around Gulfport and he said he would have to talk about it later...

I am going to steal this MaxToo Cute!