I’m still trying to find a local church or something that is helping but haven’t found anything yet. I guess now that the immediate crisis is over no one is thinking about the long road of recovery ahead.
That’s exactly why I wasn’t worried about it taking some time, those that aren’t actually involved can’t realize just how long a road it is to get back up and running after something like that. Especially the Rockport area that got annihilated by the eye of the storm, gonna be a long time before any kind of normalcy occurs.
well, I am disenchanted with this project
I don’t want anything
butt will consider hard my participation in any other efforts to help
I’ll look around
Neal informed me that he is putting together a spreadsheet to give to Lumintop so they can all be shipped at once. I get the feeling the Chinese Holiday has had something to do with all this and they are now back to normal. So everybody’s light/lights should be shipping out soon.
I am not sure you understand my displeasure
I wanted to help someone
someone
get the help out to someone
not my damn lights
I do understand, and help it will. Those big guys come in and take names and information, cut checks, the process begins… who’s there 6 weeks down the road? 8? Everybody forgets about em and moves on. I am about to get at least half of it to a Church I know of that is moving food and diapers and clothing by the truckload on a daily basis. Still. It’s getting harder and harder for the Church to keep supplies, people are slacking off. Gotta be somebody to have their back. Right?
And for the record, I’ve already equipped a help team from here locally with lights and cells and chargers and water to go in and assist with the cleanup. It’s an everyday thing. Taken one day at a time. You have no idea the mess down there, every house dumping massive piles of water soaked sheetrock and insulation and couches and TV’s and refrigerators and washer/dryers and beds and antique furniture that’s been in the family for ages. Piles of rubbish as big as the destroyed houses, up one side and down the other on street after street after street. There’s a LOT of need for a very long time in all this. It’s not a rush in and help and wash your hands and go back to business kind of venture. 10’s of thousands, 100’s of thousands of lives have been turned upside down. You really think $1200 is gonna save an area 200 miles long and 100 miles deep?
Dale, thanks for doing this.
I’ve been intimately involved in emergency situations (2 earthquakes, and 1 flood)
That is why I offered help
Do not tell me I don’t have any idea of the mess these ppl are suffering
I went through it in Sylmar and Northridge quakes and we had to move out while our home was rebuilt
We recently 2011 had a flood and we had to get out again as our home was again rebuilt.
So don’t even tell me that I don’t feel for those people that are displaced
I can’t say more or I’d be ruded
just do something
with my money
Sorry, didn’t mean that to be directed at you specifically, since this is an open forum with people from all over the world I speak in general terms.
And I will.
:+1: Awesome.
I don’t mind the wait, but the vagueness was quite annoying.
As for the money, i’m sure it will end up where it’s needed.
so…
Any word yet on this?
Tomorrow makes 2 weeks since the comment about Neal getting the info to lumintop. Here’s to hoping it’s less than 2 more weeks to go.
This doesn’t bode well for future efforts to help people from here.
It isn’t easy, I know, butt communication is essential.
I am considering rescinding my Paypal payments for the Lumintop lights, and applying them to some other method of relief for the afflicted ppl in the area.
My donated light was paid for and I have sent it already.
I’m not trying to blame anyone, or worrying about the lights, I have lots of lights
I just want to get some help out to where it can do some good
That’s why I participated, and it seems stalled and nothing is getting to the needy
And therein lies the rub… if I pull the money out of the bank account, the bank account I created just for this purpose, and people like you get upset about the delivery of the light and rescind their payment, what happens to me with my depleted bank account? This is exactly why the money is still there.
Kind of sucks trying to do something nice, and be the middle man, and other people do not follow through with their word… blame goes to you even though you have done nothing but trying to be helpful.
Yeah, and the longer this goes on the more likely it is I’m going to have to pay taxes on these “profits” I have in the bank. :person_facepalming:
Well, i have lost my patience.
Just ordered a HLAAA from Banggood.
You can send my money to a Harvey relief fund of your choice.