Monkeyfister issues a plea for help for tornado victims:
This Is My Best First Start To Help My Region.
As Scout Prime is to NOLA, I am, suddenly, to the Mid-South area (I LIVE here, and was Live-Blogging these horrible storms all night), and have started to get the help-ball rolling down here. Some of you know where I work. I started a Food Drive there today for the Mid-South United Way Food Bank.As the area affected is so broad and detached, and everyone in the Country was distracted by politics last night, as yet, there is no central assistance hub set-up. So, at the link, above, you’ll find the two agencies with the broadest radius to help the area right now. Both take DIRECT donations.
If you’ve got an extra dollar or ten, those folks could sure use it. The two agencies mentioned in the link are the American Red Cross and United Way Mid-South.
Bush told the victims today that all of us were praying for them. If I prayed the Deity (if such there be) would laugh and say “who are you and where the hell have you been?”, but I can help publicize the needs of all those poor people.
weren’t some of the states hit with the tornadoes having their caucus’s that very day?
Or primaries, yes. And it happened right as polls were closing/people were leaving work, I think.
My contacts in Alabama* tell me the worst of it hit about 3 in the morning, when no one was listening to the radio. This probably isn’t the time for my rant about why the state doesn’t require a functioning storm shelter as part of every trailer park, but it is a question for the future.
I’m assuming you don’t want my professional opinion on your prayer life. Helping the poor, in whatever way, is always a good thing.
*All fine, not very close to the worst of it. My dad said the good news is, the storm missed them. The bad news is, so did the rain. The whole region ranges from “Abnormally Dry” to “Drought – Exceptional.” https://www.drought.unl.edu/DM/monitor.html