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If you are not able to donate money, please donate time. I know the Red Cross needs more phone operators and other orginzationally-minded folks. I am sure there are other agencies in this kind of need.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TOMORROW NIGHT
FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA
As the situation worsens in New Orleans and other areas devastated
by Hurricane Katrina, help is desperately needed for victims.
Rocky Mountain PBS is stepping forward to offer a benefit telethon
for the American Red Cross TOMORROW NIGHT – Friday, September 2 from
8-9 p.m. The telethon will immediately follow a national benefit
concert broadcast by NBC stations from 7-8 p.m. and is being
produced in partnership with KUSA-TV 9News.
Volunteers are needed tomorrow night (Friday) from 7-10 p.m. to
staff phones for donations and questions. Volunteer greeters and
assistants are also needed. Food will be provided.
We will need all volunteers at KRMA-TV at 1089 Bannock Street (at
11th) in Denver by 7 p.m. for training.
If you can help, please email volunteer@rmpbs.org
Thank you!
In case anyone is looking for a good way to help, Salvation Army is a reliable and high-impact organization. You can donate through the following
It appears that even in a time of crisis, this Administration can’t keep its hands entirely out of the cookie jar on behalf of its friends…
Why is Pat Robertson’s Operation Blessing up top of the FEMA list, out of order with the rest of the organizations (aside from the Red Cross, which is deservedly at the top as they have by far the greatest resources…)? This organization is not nearly the size of many other organizations on the list… This is the same organization Robertson allegedly used to disguise shipments to his Zaire diamond mine.
Considering robertson the kill ’em guy, gets the money – why didn’t bush, where in the world is cheney, and rice tell us how many millions of dollars they are donating to the relief effort? He wants the private sector to do the work, he can at least seed the donation jar.
After 09/11 why are we not better prepared for such a grave national disaster? I think every American is asking this question.
Why is it that every Democrat on this site is giving the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans and the Democrat Governor of Louisiana and the Democrat Legislature of Louisiana a complete pass on the Hurricane recovery? Are they not the elected leaders who are responsible for the welfare of their city and state? Are they not the ones who should be prepared for a natural disaster of this magnitude?
Bush did all he legally could by getting FEMA ready to go before the Hurricane hit. The Dems in control of Louisiana have had years to prepare for a hurricane like this, but they didn’t and now people are dying and all you can do is blame Bush who has 49 other states that he has to watch over in addition to Louisiana.
As for Robertson, I don’t agree with his methods a lot of the time, but if he is as evil as you folks think he is, why would he have a charity dedicated to helping people?
Yahoo! News
Models predicted New Orleans disaster, experts say
By Alan Elsner 25 minutes ago
Virtually everything that has happened in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina struck was predicted by experts and in computer models, so emergency management specialists wonder why authorities were so unprepared.
“The scenario of a major hurricane hitting New Orleans was well anticipated, predicted and drilled around,” said Clare Rubin, an emergency management consultant who also teaches at the Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management at George Washington University.
Computer models developed at Louisiana State University and other institutions made detailed projections of what would happen if water flowed over the levees protecting the city or if they failed.
In July 2004, more than 40 federal, state, local and volunteer organizations practiced this very scenario in a five-day simulation code-named “Hurricane Pam,” where they had to deal with an imaginary storm that destroyed over half a million buildings in New Orleans and forced the evacuation of a million residents.
At the end of the exercise Ron Castleman, regional director for the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared: “We made great progress this week in our preparedness efforts.
“Disaster response teams developed action plans in critical areas such as search and rescue, medical care, sheltering, temporary housing, school restoration and debris management. These plans are essential for quick response to a hurricane but will also help in other emergencies,” he said.
In light of that, said disaster expert Bill Waugh of Georgia State University, “It’s inexplicable how unprepared for the flooding they were.” He said a slow decline over several years in funding for emergency management was partly to blame.
In comments on Thursday, President George W. Bush said, “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”
But Louisiana State University engineer Joseph Suhayda and others have warned for years that defenses could fail. In 2002, the New Orleans Times Picayune published a five-part series on “The Big One” examining what might happen if they did.
SCENARIO LAID OUT
It predicted that 200,000 people or more would be unwilling or unable to heed evacuation orders and thousands would die, that people would be housed in the Superdome, that aid workers would find it difficult to gain access to the city as roads became impassable, as well as many other of the consequences that actually unfolded after Katrina hit this week.
Craig Marks who runs Blue Horizons Consulting, an emergency management training company in North Carolina, said the authorities had mishandled the evacuation, neglecting to help those without transportation to leave the city.
“They could have packed people on trains or buses and gotten them out before the hurricane struck. They had enough time and access to federal funds. And now, we find we do not have a proper emergency communications infrastructure so aid workers get out into the field and they can’t talk to one another,” he said.
Most of those trapped by the floods in the city of some 500,000 people are the poor who had little chance to leave.
Ernest Sternberg, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Buffalo, said law enforcement agencies were often more eager to invest in high tech “toys” than basic communications.
“It’s well known that communications go down in disasters but people on the frontlines still don’t invest in them. A lot of the investments that have been made in homeland security have been misspent,” he said.
Several experts also believe the decision to make FEMA a part of the Department of Homeland Security, created after the September 11, 2001 attacks, was a major mistake. Rubin said FEMA functioned well in the 1990s as a small, independent agency.
“Under DHS, it was downgraded, buried in a couple of layers of bureaucracy, and terrorism prevention got all the attention and most of the funds,” she said.
Former FEMA director James Lee Witt testified to Congress in March 2004: “I am extremely concerned that the ability of our nation to prepare for and respond to disasters has been sharply eroded.
“I hear from emergency managers, local and state leaders, and first responders nearly every day that the FEMA they knew and worked well with has now disappeared. In fact one state emergency manager told me, ‘It is like a stake has been driven into the heart of emergency management,”‘ he said.
Underlying the situation has been the general reluctance of government at any level to invest in infrastructure or emergency management, said David McEntire, who teaches emergency management at the University of North Texas.
“No-one cares about disasters until they happen. That is a political fact of life,” he said.
“Emergency management is woefully underfunded in this nation. That covers not only first responders but also warning, evacuation, damage assessment, volunteer management, donation management and recovery and mitigation issues,” he said.
This should be a pretty painful wake-up call for America that we are not as prepared for a major catastrophe – be it caused by nature or humans – as we’ve been led to believe.
This is why as citizens we have two responsbilities and both include coming together. We need to come together and help the Gulf Coast in anyway we can. Donate, give blood, do what you can. It’s the private organizations that seem to be making the biggest impact right now and we should be supporting their efforts. Do it – now.
Second, we need to come together to question all levels of our government and all political parties – in Washington, in Louisiana, Mississippi, here in Colorado, everywhere – about our preparedness for such an event. It’s going to happen again and there’s a pretty good chance it will be caused by humans next time.
If keeping Americans safe is the goal of this administration, its supporters in Congress and across the country, as will as those in the opposition party, then they should welcome our involvement in helping ensure that result. If we as citizens don’t stay invovled and keep on our elected officials, the next time this happens we’ll have ourselves to blame.
I get really sick and tired of hearing about this. If they are quick to judge, why don’t they offer their wallets and homes to the REFUGEES?!?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050902/ap_on_go_co/katrina_black_lawmakers
“Why is it that every Democrat on this site is giving the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans and the Democrat Governor of Louisiana and the Democrat Legislature of Louisiana a complete pass on the Hurricane recovery?”
Because the Democrats don’t have a plan of their own!
JS,
See a funny thing happened last time we had a national tragedy on this scale with the Republicans using it for partisan gain and they are continuing to use it for partisan gain.
I am going to volunteer for the hurricane telethon that I posted above and I expect to the see all the Republican apologists there also.
marshall
There is nothing funny about this disaster. And if anybody thinks enough isn’t being done call the Red Cross and tell them that you want to sponser a family at your house. We as a country need to spread the relocation of the homeless across the land. Offer up your place up and help these people start to rebuild their lives and you will find a glory in your heart that you’ve never felt before.
Government is not the solution. You are.
Marshall,
If you go to Louisiana on Saturday you will see my Republican wife helping out for three weeks as part of the Red Cross team. As for me I plan on volunteering at the Red Cross answering phones and staffing the office while folks are away.
Oh, I forgot, you think you are the only one who cares… how sad.
Great comments Keith.
Thank you.
This sponsorship thing works and you don’t have to be of great means to do it. Talk to members of your community and find a nieghbor who may have a house that would be big enough for sponsorship. Then the other neighbors could chip in financially to defry the cost.
Anybody could organize a team effort that would directly help those in need. The victims have to relocate anyway.
With all the campaign ops on this site, I am quite confident that we have the knowledge to put teams like I describe together.
Hell, we do it all the time!
addendum:
One could use campaign contributors as a source of funding then talk to the church of your choice, or a fellowship or club of anykind that has a membership base that would like to contribute to sponsoring a family. With a team that is large enough, you could rent a house for a family, get them in,enroll the kids in school and help the parents find jobs. With a large enough team, one could have a family back on their feet quickly.
Like winning a campaign.
I agree with you the way you view the issue. I remember Jack London once said everything positive has a negative side; everything negative has positive side. It is also interesting to see different viewpoints & learn useful things in the discussion.
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