On Sunday afternoon, I received this via Twitter from
@Iansomerhalder (TV's Vampire Diaries's Damon Salvatore)
"I was on the ground 24hrs after hurricane Katrina-this is 1,000 Katrinas... A human & eco disaster of huge proportions."
As many of you know, a year after Katrina hit, I spent a week in New Orleans building houses with Habitat for Humanity. What was more devastating than than the initial disaster, was the fact that it was a year later, and not much had changed. Read the following article, take a look at the pictures attached, and let's come see if we can come up with some suggestions of what we Hoytsters can do to help out.
Leave your suggestions in the comments, and be sure to include your name.
Three days after a massive earthquake that is now estimated to have registered a 9.0 magnitude, Japanese rescue crews are being joined by foreign aid teams in the search for survivors in the wreckage. Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan has called the disaster nation's worst crisis since World War II, as the incredible scope of the destruction becomes clear and fears mount of a possible nuclear meltdown at a failing power plant. It is still too early for exact numbers, but the estimated death toll may top 10,000 as thousands remain unaccounted for. Gathered here are new
images of the destruction and of the search for survivors.
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-Miss Lewis
Bryan Waters
ReplyDeleteWe could donate some money or needed supplies and do a fundraiser sort of thing since I don't know what else to do since they are clear across the ocean in a disaster filled area INSIDE.