#relief effort

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Hey artists, draw Tsunami on your style to show some love to our Venezuelan hero!

That's Tsunami with his owner 🥹 they have finally stopped working after rescuing 26 lives.

You can also @ / tag your favorite artist on this post to share the news!!

[mediamattersforamerica]

When both Harvard researchers and the Puerto Rican government itself reported that the death toll from Hurricane Maria far exceeded the original count of 64 deaths, cable news barely mentioned it.

[phantomthiefbymoonlight]

Hurricane Florence

Hey, guys, I’m a Wilmington, North Carolina native. Lived there my whole life, been through a lot of hurricanes in my 27 years. 

But this is bad. 

My home town is pretty much wrecked. A lot of things are underwater, a lot of places that I loved have been destroyed. Power is gone and we have no idea when we’ll get it back. The local university is closed indefinitely with no clear sign of when it might open again. Our beautiful beaches and coast towns are flooded and/or devastated. Worse, I have no idea when me or my roommates are going to go back to work, which means we won’t get money to pay the rent. A lot of people are either homeless or currently jobless. 

If you can, please donate to for the relief effort. We’re really going to need it. Especially people like my family who work minimum wage jobs and don’t get paid time off. I’m not asking for money for me because I think we’ll be okay (please god let us be okay), but I know there are people who are not gonna be okay. And they need help more than anything. 

Vox posted an article with links where you can donate to help. If you can find a local charity, that would be great. I also suggest donating to Global Giving and All Hands and Hearts as they got high scores on Charity Navigator. 

If you donate to Red Cross or the Salvation Army, I recommended donating to another charity as well because Red Cross does take some of that money and the Salvation Army money won’t go to helping LGBT folks. 

Michael Jordan, who is an NC native, also partnered with the NBA and is collecting donations for the hurricane Florence relief effort. Hopefully this will be as charitable as it sounds. 

[femininefreak]

Here’s what your MoCs need to hear from you to help Houston after the flood waters recede:

Demand immediate relief for areas affected by Harvey. Members of the Texas delegation are leading efforts to appropriate emergency relief for Houston, coastal Texas, and Louisiana. This is a national crisis and every Member of Congress should support aid for areas affected by Hurricane Harvey. Make sure that your MoCs do, too.

Resist funding cuts to disaster preparedness and response. Trump has called for massive cuts to FEMA, the coast guard, and other programs that are essential to prepare for and respond to disasters like Harvey. But funding is the job of Congress, so make sure your MoC doesn’t cut these important programs.

Rebuild Houston, not some stupid wall. We need infrastructure, medical help, jobs and economic security to rebuild Houston and the Gulf Coast, not a thousand mile long political posture for Trump’s white supremacist worldview. Demand your members of Congress supply federal funding to rebuild our cities and our communities—not for a costly and unnecessary wall.

Reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program. Even as Houston sits under water, Congress is unsure about whether it should reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program, which is intended to protect Americans from events like Harvey and expires on September 30. Congress needs to not just reauthorize the program, but strengthen it.

Address climate change in a meaningful way. Tropical Storm Harvey is real, so is climate change. We need a deliberative grassroots-driven plan that takes into account the strong likelihood of future climate disasters while taking action to avert the worst of the climate crisis. If Congress won’t address climate change, then we need to make sure our local and state governments are.

[lowcountrydigitallibrary]

The Storm Swept Coast of South Carolina

"I was so busy that evening cooking supper I never minded the wind and rain, nor the great roaring of the waves, till I looked out through the shutter and saw the sea all around the house."

Margaret Weary, a resident of St. Helena, was one of many whose recollections of surviving a 1893 hurricane were documented in this book.  In August of 1893 three deadly hurricanes hit South Carolina's Sea Islands leading to the death of at least one thousand people. The death toll caused by these hurricanes was at least ten times the death toll of the much more well-known 1886 earthquake that also hit South Carolina.

The Storm Swept Coast of South Carolina, a book documenting Margaret Weary and many other St. Helena residents' experiences of surviving the storm, was authored by R. C. Mather. Mather founded the Mather School in 1867, which educated the daughters of liberated enslaved people. After the hurricane, though, she worked for the island's residents by providing clothing, tools, seeds, and other provisions to help people rebuild their lives.

From The Storm Swept Coast of South Carolina collection held by the Beaufort County Library.

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

I've just woke up and I'm already crying. We still don't know how truly bad it is, because the access to la Guaira is restricted given the destruction.

Almost a week later, they're still rescuing people. No one is given up. Among the darkness, among the rubble, people from all over the world search with flashlights.

What will happen when our lives "return to normalcy" and were forced to confront the empty places where some people used to sit in the classroom? At the office?

This is too much. No one can deal with this much.

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

I've just woke up and I'm already crying. We still don't know how truly bad it is, because the access to la Guaira is restricted given the destruction.

Almost a week later, they're still rescuing people. No one is given up. Among the darkness, among the rubble, people from all over the world search with flashlights.

What will happen when our lives "return to normalcy" and were forced to confront the empty places where some people used to sit in the classroom? At the office?

This is too much. No one can deal with this much.

[ambient-entropy]

Jewish groups launch relief effort for Maui as island's Jews are among the evacuated https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-754488?utm_source=jpost.app.android&utm_medium=share

Jewish groups launch relief effort for Maui as island’s Jews are among

The wildfires have all but destroyed the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui.