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Hurricane update
Got up early this am to go south, called the Highway Patrol and was advised that it would be best to simply drop our hurricane supplies here in Tampa at our local NBC station, Channel Eight.
It is nothing like Hurricane Andrew, there are already hundreds of power trucks, National Guard, Fireman from Miami and everywhere else on scene and at work in Port Charlotte. In fact Pres. Bush is in town right now making tour of the destruction.
This response is light years from what we had in Andrew.....as it was 10 days before any help showed up in Homested after it hit there.
Aid trucks are everywhere, they are already getting some power back <we had no power for almost a month after Andrew>. The donations of water and supplies is amazing.....
My neighbor passed away last month, but yesterday a car showed up in her driveway.....is a second cousin from Punta Gorda, their house was hit and the eye of the storm went right over the top of them. They evacuated and are now my neighbors until they can return to their house.
They are rather shell shocked and have two teenage sons that were looking desperate, so I ran a cable from my satellite dish into their living room and set them up with the receiver from my bedroom so they could have some TV and news from their home town.
On another note, inland Florida, near Arcadia was hit just as hard as all the homes were much older and not up to code, the destruction there is almost as bad.
I tried to give away the gas I had in drums, but they said it was too dangerous to transport that way, so I gues it will go in our boats.
What they really need is cash donations, water, coolers, food, ice, as temporay relief. Channel 8 WFLA Tampa is collecting this and sending it down in trucks three times a day. Or the Red Cross and Salvation Army are also taking donations.
It is nice to see an immediate responce to this disaster, as these folks are in a world of hurt and need all the assistance they can get.
That is all for now, I have to make another trip downtown to drop more water that we have collected from our neighbors.
Thanks
Richard TBS
Got up early this am to go south, called the Highway Patrol and was advised that it would be best to simply drop our hurricane supplies here in Tampa at our local NBC station, Channel Eight.
It is nothing like Hurricane Andrew, there are already hundreds of power trucks, National Guard, Fireman from Miami and everywhere else on scene and at work in Port Charlotte. In fact Pres. Bush is in town right now making tour of the destruction.
This response is light years from what we had in Andrew.....as it was 10 days before any help showed up in Homested after it hit there.
Aid trucks are everywhere, they are already getting some power back <we had no power for almost a month after Andrew>. The donations of water and supplies is amazing.....
My neighbor passed away last month, but yesterday a car showed up in her driveway.....is a second cousin from Punta Gorda, their house was hit and the eye of the storm went right over the top of them. They evacuated and are now my neighbors until they can return to their house.
They are rather shell shocked and have two teenage sons that were looking desperate, so I ran a cable from my satellite dish into their living room and set them up with the receiver from my bedroom so they could have some TV and news from their home town.
On another note, inland Florida, near Arcadia was hit just as hard as all the homes were much older and not up to code, the destruction there is almost as bad.
I tried to give away the gas I had in drums, but they said it was too dangerous to transport that way, so I gues it will go in our boats.
What they really need is cash donations, water, coolers, food, ice, as temporay relief. Channel 8 WFLA Tampa is collecting this and sending it down in trucks three times a day. Or the Red Cross and Salvation Army are also taking donations.
It is nice to see an immediate responce to this disaster, as these folks are in a world of hurt and need all the assistance they can get.
That is all for now, I have to make another trip downtown to drop more water that we have collected from our neighbors.
Thanks
Richard TBS
