FWIW, I contributed via the National Association of Realtors..
They contributed $1 million today as an association. If you want
to go through their link:
https://www.realtor.org/RelFundTrack.nsf/Contribution?OpenForm
NAR absorbs the admin costs, so this is 100% through put.
http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/All/06E686081?OpenDocument&key=Auto&WT.mc_n=RMODailyNewsEmail09012005&WT.mc_t=RMODailyNews&topic=NAR%20Donates%20$1%20Million%20More%20to%20Hurricane%20Relief&e=mattm@optonline.net
NAR and Realtors. also contributed $1.5 million to tsunami
relief, too.
Matt Murray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juan Marquez" <jmarquez@ont.com>
To: "924/944/968" <924/944@rennlist.org>
> Attached is an email from an MD friend of mine who practices in
> the Biloxi area.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "stephanie dyer"
To: <Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:45 PM
> Subject: AFTERMATH
>
>
>> I am not sure that I can adequately tell you all what is
>> going on here. Every citizen who could get out went, and most
>> are displaced but functioning with resources etc. The
>> refugees you are seeing are the 100,000 poorest residents of
>> the area who had no way out and no place to go. They remain
>> because the hurricane didn't actually hit LA-it hit MS. There,
>> the poor have been wiped out completely. The two hospitals in
>> Biloxi were both within blocks of the beach-and 90% of the
>> structures between the beach and the railroad are gone.
>> Yesterday there were around 30 patients who were treated for
>> carbon monoxide poisoning in our center. These people are
>> packed into motel rooms, and are overwhelming the ventilation
>> systems. People have come here with no prescription drugs,
>> and no way to get them.
>> We are setting up a shelter in the convention center here,
>> but we are in a very poor community. We need all the help you
>> can throw at us right now, including your thoughts and
>> prayers. Please do whatever you can to help the relief
>> efforts. We still don't have phones for LD but will try to
>> keep in touch by email.
>> There are so many heart wrenching stories but I keep hearing
>> one amazing American thing-"God blessed me, I am alright and I
>> am going to serve Him and my fellow man. I know I am here for
>> a purpose!!" It is incredible to hear that sentiment over and
>> over from all different manner of people. People who were
>> trapped in attics for days, who rode out the hurricane on a
>> tree limb in Biloxi, people who were literally washed out into
>> the gulf only to be thrown back onto soft dry land. The
>> stories go on and on and I am not creative enough to do them
>> all justice. I see the endless lines of people and it is
>> daunting, but we all keep going because they do. These docs
>> and nurses are really something.
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