Our country is hurting
Sep. 2nd, 2005 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cheesycatsHere I am again, sounding like a broken record, but please please please continue to donate money and supplies if you can. I don't care if it's a dollar, or an old t-shirt, or a cheap can of store-brand peas, if there's a collection drive for items near you, please give something. If you can send only pocket change to the Red Cross or Salvation Army, please do.
And I beg you please, conserve gas when you can. I know that people need gas to get to work and to school and for errands and that's fine, but please try to do what you can to not waste fuel. No unnecessary trips, no joy riding, try to economize your trips by getting more things done in one trip instead of making many trips. The coast is desperate for fuel. The shortage is real: hopefully it's only temporary once deliveries are re-established, but it's very important that the fuel that is available gets to these stricken areas. Generators at hospitals and shelters need to be kept going. Utility trucks and rescue vehicles need fuel to clear roads, re-establish communication services, reach survivors and deliver supplies.
THE COAST NEEDS FUEL AND FOOD. I talked to my sister this morning and she feels so helpless that she can't get to other family members and help because her gas tank is empty so she can't travel beyond the distance she can walk in her neighborhood, and what little is left of her town of Long Beach. Communication is non-existent, spotty at best so people aren't aware of where they can find food and relief services when it does get there.
Oh, and the president's little pat himself on the back session in Mobile just now? I'm... there are no words. And when he talked about looking forward to sitting on the porch of Trent Lott's bigger and better than before rebuilt beachfront Pascagoula home in the future. Fuck. What about all the little houses behind Trent's house that were washed away? The houses where middle to lower income families live, many of them without flood insurance? Where will they get their bigger and better houses?
And I beg you please, conserve gas when you can. I know that people need gas to get to work and to school and for errands and that's fine, but please try to do what you can to not waste fuel. No unnecessary trips, no joy riding, try to economize your trips by getting more things done in one trip instead of making many trips. The coast is desperate for fuel. The shortage is real: hopefully it's only temporary once deliveries are re-established, but it's very important that the fuel that is available gets to these stricken areas. Generators at hospitals and shelters need to be kept going. Utility trucks and rescue vehicles need fuel to clear roads, re-establish communication services, reach survivors and deliver supplies.
THE COAST NEEDS FUEL AND FOOD. I talked to my sister this morning and she feels so helpless that she can't get to other family members and help because her gas tank is empty so she can't travel beyond the distance she can walk in her neighborhood, and what little is left of her town of Long Beach. Communication is non-existent, spotty at best so people aren't aware of where they can find food and relief services when it does get there.
Oh, and the president's little pat himself on the back session in Mobile just now? I'm... there are no words. And when he talked about looking forward to sitting on the porch of Trent Lott's bigger and better than before rebuilt beachfront Pascagoula home in the future. Fuck. What about all the little houses behind Trent's house that were washed away? The houses where middle to lower income families live, many of them without flood insurance? Where will they get their bigger and better houses?
