My USA Hurricane Ike experience
Assignment: Hurricane Ike response, Staff Relations Manager, Houston, Texas, USA
Volunteer: Bob Dendoff
Hometown: Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Tomorrow (Thursday) will be my last day on the "job'". We have now moved to our new Headquarters. My trips to Bigtown and Galveston have proven to be an eye opener. The smell of rotting garbage still piled up on the streets is not pretty.
While visiting our Galveston shelter, which is made up of huge tents housing up to 200 evacuees per tent, I had the opportunity to have a personal tour around the place. It started to rain. You do not want rain in that dirt field.
Over to the mega warehouse area which is located next to the destroyed aircraft museum at the local airport. The site would make a grown man or woman cry....
At this site there are dozens and dozens of refrigerator ("reefer") semi-trailer units loaded with all types of food, which is distributed into dozens and dozens of Emergency Response Trucks, known as ERVs. It is a massive operation.... and very well organized.
This Disaster Response volunteer assignment is truly a hardship situation and you definitely have to be able to bare the heat, primitive conditions, and be in good physical and mental health.
Bob
Volunteer: Bob Dendoff
Hometown: Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Tomorrow (Thursday) will be my last day on the "job'". We have now moved to our new Headquarters. My trips to Bigtown and Galveston have proven to be an eye opener. The smell of rotting garbage still piled up on the streets is not pretty.
While visiting our Galveston shelter, which is made up of huge tents housing up to 200 evacuees per tent, I had the opportunity to have a personal tour around the place. It started to rain. You do not want rain in that dirt field.
Over to the mega warehouse area which is located next to the destroyed aircraft museum at the local airport. The site would make a grown man or woman cry....
At this site there are dozens and dozens of refrigerator ("reefer") semi-trailer units loaded with all types of food, which is distributed into dozens and dozens of Emergency Response Trucks, known as ERVs. It is a massive operation.... and very well organized.
This Disaster Response volunteer assignment is truly a hardship situation and you definitely have to be able to bare the heat, primitive conditions, and be in good physical and mental health.
Bob
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