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Prioleau Alexander: Helene’s Devastation Is Just Beginning
“In the places that are now devastated, they have snow shovels, not hurricane supplies…”
“In the places that are now devastated, they have snow shovels, not hurricane supplies…”
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I guess the “storm coverage” time period has passed so now we can move back to the “gubmint bad” and “global warming no real” grifts.
P- You really cued my interest on the comment about Red Cross wasting a billion dollars after 9/11. Can you give us a cite on that? I’d like to learn more about it.
The # eventually reached 1 billion, at which time they stopped collecting. Probably because they were being crucified in the press. They really are a sham. This is 1,000% of stories out there.
https://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/11/06/rec.charity.hearing/index.html
https://www.propublica.org/article/disturbing-things-about-the-red-crosss-sandy-relief-efforts
https://www.npr.org/2014/10/30/360019809/red-cross-troubles-have-been-building-for-years
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/9-11-briefs-200-000-units-of-blood-was-wasted-1095659.php
I’ve been out since Saturday doing assessments for the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s Disaster Recovery Program. The greater Columbia/Midlands area was hit much harder than the news knows, and we still have 100s of houses with trees on them, roads that are barely passable and homes without power, way down at the end of the road, in that 5% that won’t have power by Thursday.
All of our teams are 100% volunteer and the churches fund some of the equipment with the team members providing the rest. My church, (Shandon) has been pretty generous and we can (and often do) outfit 15 cutters and 15 helpers with saws/tools and PPE. Team members provide tractors, their own PPE and saws. There are only a couple of full-time workers at the Convention who take care of planning, training and establishing the EOC when disaster strikes.
We don’t solicit any money, ever, though most teams will take a donation to the church that is then passed directly to replacing chainsaw blades, PPE or tarping material or passed back to the Convention to prepare for the next go around.
If you want to help out through a program where you know every dime goes to those in need, you can drop off supplies at Shandon Baptist on Forest. This material will be taken directly to western NC for distribution. They have specifically asked for: Generators, diapers, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, formula, beef stew, peanut butter, canned chicken or tuna, crackers, gas cans, non-perishable foods, hygiene supplies and cleaning supplies. Visit shandon.org with questions, to request help or to sign up to serve.
The Colonel,
Thank you for stepping up, and giving others info on how they can too! Dropping supplies is a more rewarding feeling than money, because you know that very chainsaw (or Gatorade) is going to handed directly to someone who needs it.
Before you give money to Samaritan’s purse, please keep this in mind. Franklin Graham is paid over a $807,000 in salary from Samaritan’s Purse in 2022. When you add to his pay from Billy Graham Evangelical Association, his income is over a million dollars a year, and that does not include the perks, like the use of an unnecessary private jet. And this is not new, in 2013 his income was well above the average salary of CEOs at the top 50 U.S. charities, which was between $350,000 and $450,000 (still too much). In 2013, Graham’s salary made him the highest-paid CEO of any international relief agency.
Like Trump, Graham is a grifter. Trading on his family name, he lives a lavish lifestyle convincing people who live on Social Security to give away their money and then he takes a cut of what they give.
But, if you think that is an aberration among the “rich preachers,” look at the incomes of all the “Evangelists” who support Trump. Show me a rich preacher and I will show you a conman.
The sad part about “once in a lifetime” storms like this – not to be confused with the “thousand year storm” that happened not that long ago – is that global warming is going to effectively turn this stuff into the rule for hurricane seasons rather than the exception. We’ll witness the carnage happen repeatedly and more frequently as time goes on. And in true ‘Murika fashion, similar to how “hottest year on record” happens every year, rather than be appalled and demand action, we’ll get desensitized to it and increasingly ignore it.
You know, like school shootings.
“It’s too expensive to fix.”
“Nothing can really be done about it.”
“Thoughts and prayers.”
“We can’t talk about it because it’s too soon since the last tragedy.”
“Maybe if teachers were armed someone could have shot the hurricane before it killed anyone.”
Wait…