America Will Care For Its Own

[Annie]

Granted it would be nice to see world wide funds pour in, don't think it will happen. Then again, perhaps because we can do so. I'm posting 3 off of Instapundit, so no 'direct links'. Lots of links at site, all come down to the same thing, we care!:

http://instapundit.com/

August 31, 2005

FLOOD AID UPDATE: Here are some places you can donate to hurricane Katrina relief: (Bumped to top -- scroll down for current posts.)

American Red Cross

Catholic Charities is involved, and probably has lots of resources to draw on in the heavily Catholic New Orleans area.

Austin Bay is recommending Episcopal Relief and Development.

Liz at Rightalk suggests that animal lovers donate to the Humane Society.

Here's a link to Mennonite Disaster Services. The Sanity Inspector says they're highly efficient.

Reader Peter Viditto recommends The Mercy Corps

Here's the link for Methodist Relief.

The Salvation Army does good work. (WalMart just gave them a million dollars, but that's just the barest beginning of what's needed.)

Hugh Hewitt recommends Samaritan's Purse

Scott Ott recommends Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.

I'll keep updating this as I get new suggestions.

Jay Allen has a further suggestion:

I would suggest people donate through their companies whenever possible. Most major corporations offer matching funds to the dollar for charitable donations. Find who's collecting money for relief efforts, then file for a match through your employer instead of sending to the agency directly.

Not bad -- if your employer is supporting this.

Chuck Simmins is tracking corporate donations.

Technorati Tags: flood aid, Hurricane Katrina
posted at 09:00 PM by Glenn Reynolds Permalink
August 30, 2005

FEDERAL RELIEF EFFORTS, including a Naval flotilla and 125,000 National Guardsmen, are on the way to afflicted areas, reports CNN.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

What most of these poor folks need right now is information on where they can go to seek shelter. I'm in Tuscaloosa right now and you wouldn't believe the overflow of people seeking hotel rooms. Maybe the blogosphere can help get the word out to the relief agencies they need to get the word out to the victims. The University recreation center is offering shelter for now, but what happens when that overflows? How are these people going to continue to pay for hotel rooms weeks after this disaster?

I don't know how to handle this problem, but I hope that somebody does. Ideas?
posted at 11:30 PM by Glenn Reynolds Permalink

KAYE TRAMMELL has an open comment thread for people looking for news and information about survivors.

Also, here's the Hurricane Katrina help Wiki.

Craigslist is running a lost and found list for friends and relatives. It also includes posts from people who want to help.

I'm not sure why, exactly, but more than anything else, reading the entries brought tears to my eyes.

Read this, too.

Here's an example:

http://blog.simmins.org/2005/08/katrina-donations-begin.html

Katrina: Donations Begin

In an effort to get some information out, before I get the list going for the item on the left, here is what I have:

Culligan International Company $ five
semi-trailer trucks full of safe, bottled drinking water
BP Foundation $1,000,000 Donated to the Red Cross. Will also match employee contributions.
DuPont $1,000,000 Donated to various local charities
Cingular Wireless $ Free
emergency calling stations in region.
Capital One Financial Corporation $1,000,000 Donated to the Red Cross.
Universal Drug Store
WINNIPEG, Manitoba $ Free shipping to region. $1 per order donated to the Red Cross.
U-Haul Company of Mississippi $ 30 days of free storage at certain U-Haul Moving and Storage
Centers to families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Chevron Corporation $5,000,000 $3 mil to American Red Cross, remainder to local charities.
Office Depot $1,000,000 Donated to the Red Cross.
GM Foundation $ Will match GM employee contributions up to $250,000. Donated to the Red Cross.
GM Foundation & GMAC $400,000 Donated to the Red Cross.
Brookshire Brothers
Lufkin, TX $25,000 Donated to the Red Cross.
BI-LO/Bruno's supermarkets $ Matching customers up to $25,000 in donations to the Red Cross. Also donating several trailer loads of water.
CVS/Pharmacy Charitable Trust $250,000 Donated to the Red Cross. Additional $254,000 in supplies donated.
Anheuser-Busch Foundation $250,000 Donated to the Red Cross
Anheuser-Busch
12,600 cases of water
Lowes
Matching customer donations at stores up to $1,000,000
Walmart $1,000,000 Donated to the Salvation Army. Also accepting customer donations at stores and on their websites.

In addition, the American Red Cross has raised $100,000 on-line in the last two days.

I'll keep adding to this until the list page is up and running.
katrina relief

 

[Annie]

at the same time, I think it past time for the US to stop doleing out $$ to other 'victims' who will not appreciate, instead hurt us because of our 'policies':

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/30/katrina.recovery/index.html

Massive federal relief effort under way
FEMA sends rescue teams, Pentagon sends ships, helicopters

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Victims of Hurricane Katrina -- some of whom escaped with only their lives -- soon will get help from a massive federal relief effort led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Pentagon.

The FEMA effort includes search teams to find victims trapped in the attics of their homes and rescuers specialized in searching collapsed buildings.

Other teams will set up field hospitals, provide mortuary services and treat injured animals.

The Pentagon effort includes the Navy amphibious assault ship USS Bataan, whose helicopters have been flying relief missions from off the Louisiana coast.

The ship, which resembles a small aircraft carrier, can produce large quantities of fresh water and is equipped with 600 hospital beds. (Watch video report on storm-related health risks)

Several other ships, including a rescue and salvage vessel and the USS Iwo Jima, another amphibious assault ship, are on their way from Norfolk, Virginia, the Navy said.

The USNS Comfort, a floating hospital based in Baltimore, Maryland, will depart in coming days. A medical crew from Bethesda Naval Hospital will staff the ship. It has full hospital capabilities, including operating rooms and hundreds of beds.

More than 125,000 National Guard troops have been activated in 19 states and Washington, D.C., to help local agencies with traffic control, security, distributing food, and search and rescue, a Guard spokesman said.

The Coast Guard, whose crews have been assisting in the rescue of people stranded by high water in the New Orleans area, is recalling 550 reservists to assist in the relief effort.

The Air Force said it was sending two large cargo planes to the region -- a C-5 Galaxy to Louisiana and a C-17 to Mississippi.

Besides humanitarian aid, the C-5 is bringing in swift boats, which can maneuver in shallow floodwaters to ferry rescue workers and victims. The C-17 is outfitted to evacuate 36 sick and injured people at a time.

The Air Force also deployed MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to Mississippi for search and rescue efforts.

The Pentagon's Northern Command was setting up a joint relief task force at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, to coordinate military efforts with FEMA, officials said.
Long-term relief

Aid agency officials have warned conditions might not improve in Louisiana and Mississippi for weeks, maybe months.

FEMA is preparing to house "at least tens of thousands of victims ... for literally months on end," said Michael Brown, the agency's chief.

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco told reporters Tuesday after touring the affected areas in her state that "people are going to have to draw on their inner strength like we've never, ever had to do before. It's going to be, in some neighborhoods, total rebuilding."

Life-saving work remains to be done, Blanco said. "We think there are still some regions that have not been reached" by rescue workers, she said.

On Monday, Blanco and officials in Mississippi urged evacuees and others to stay put, saying it was too dangerous for many people to return home. Blanco ordered re-entry routes guarded by state police. (Emergency info)

President Bush on Monday declared Louisiana and Mississippi disaster areas, making federal funds available to affected residents.

The American Red Cross has launched the largest natural disaster mobilization in its history, larger than services for last year's four Florida hurricanes combined, said the organization's president, Marty Evans.

"We had staged extensive supplies, meals, cleanup kits, hygiene kits -- all staged to come into the area as soon as the roads are passable," Evans said.

More than 75,000 people were being housed in nearly 240 shelters, and Evans said she expects the numbers to grow.

"It's going to be a long-term operation," she said. "We're talking many, many weeks, months."

FEMA issued a list of organizations for those seeking to assist victims. (How to help)
Chainsaws and search dogs

Seven of the 18 Urban Search and Rescue task forces FEMA has deployed were already in the region before the storm struck Sunday.

Each consists of 70 people trained to conduct operations after earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes and other disasters.

They have enough food, water, batteries, fuel and camping supplies to be self-sufficient for several days, so they will not drain the resources of the communities they are there to help.

They also have search dogs, chainsaws, tools, bullhorns, spray paint for marking houses, and other gear.

Such teams assisted at the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing rescue effort, at earthquakes in Turkey and Greece in 1999, and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

In addition, search and rescue teams from local governments around the country are on their way.

The 39 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams that FEMA has deployed include specialists to handle burns, pediatrics, crush injuries, surgery and mental health.

Six teams are in the region, including five that arrived at the Superdome in New Orleans after the storm passed.

The most deployed for any of the hurricanes last year was five, one official told CNN.

CNN's Mike Ahlers, Mike Mount and Barbara Starr contributed to this report.

 

[Comrade]

Hi Kathianne, sorry for being away so long... been making some bank in Seattle with my actuarial contract consulting gig.

Chavez, the mangy cuss, opened his craw and barked out something about sending us free gas. Yeah, that'll be the day. So far we have a total of one commie dictator among the worlds leaders who are offering direct assistance to the disaster. I'm sure the Brits or Aussies will throw in a ship or two for moral support, though. But the bottom line is most of the rest world holds resentment for the material successes in America, and reactions around the world probably range from abject Bush blaming to barely contained glee.

At least, that's what the worlds' press tell me.

 

[Emmett]

The fact is the rest of the world's effort to assist the poor folks of NO and gulf region probably won't equal a portion of the money they funnel into the dem's effort to elect the Hildabeast in 08. By the time this is all done it will be W's fault that gas prices are 5.00 gallon, he planned it all that day at the ranch when he held hands with the "cartel from hell". Never mind that he will probably go against his better judgement to release oil from the SOR (which he really does not want to do but will for the right reasons). The Post will have some clever article or quote from some idiot who has it all worked out that W has screwed up the relief effort.

I can't wait to see how much Russia does to help! Or how about France, the eternal social welfare folks. I predict some kind words. Canada? Nope!

We will see. As they say, there are no atheists in a foxhole. We WILL gat to see whop our friends are. I suggest we keep a scorecard too!

 

[Johnney]

God knows no one else will

 

[HorhayAtAMD]

Canada? Nope!

Canada? Yes!

Canadian relief agencies have moved to help the U.S. states hit by Hurricane Katrina.
...
Canadian Red Cross volunteers with experience in large scale disasters were being contacted Wednesday and officials hoped a handful would be travelling to the southern U.S. by the weekend.
...
In Edmonton, Canada's Public Security Minister said Canada will do whatever it can for the U.S.

Anne McLellan said that could involve a wide variety of things, including sending military engineers.

But McLellan said medical drugs may be among the first items Canada is called upon to ship south.

She said an American government agency asked Ottawa to do an inventory of medication that could help stop the spread of infection. McLellan said the inventory has been done and the U.S. government has been informed of Canada's ability to ship the drugs.

Link

 

[CSM]

Canada? Yes!

Link

We make fun of Canadians a lot here on the board, but they usually come thru on the big stuff...

 

[HorhayAtAMD]

We make fun of Canadians a lot here on the board, but they usually come thru on the big stuff...

And vice-versa.

Actually, there is very, very little Canada bashing here.

 

[dilloduck]

We also have to be aware that many countries in Europe have been devasted by flooding this summer and it makes perfect sense for them to be helping thier own. Many others simply can't afford it.

 

[Mr. P]

Lowes
Matching customer donations at stores up to $1,000,000

Well, I'm glad they are in there, BUT.....I have a problem with this...Geeezzzzzzz
Lowes will make millions on the re-build and they're only going to match customer donations?
And people hate Wal-mart. Heck, they dropped a million right away.

 

[dilloduck]

Well, I'm glad they are in there, BUT.....I have a problem with this...Geeezzzzzzz
Lowes will make millions on the re-build and they're only going to match customer donations?
And people hate Wal-mart. Heck, they dropped a million right away.

I agree--piss poor token effort---the owners need to taken to task for this wimpy attempt.