The Southern California wild-fires are one of the few cases where bugging-out is clearly the best choice. The high-risk area is geographically well defined and there is sufficient infrastructure within three hour's drive to absorb the refugees.
My question for my readers is this: Do you know of any churches (or other organizations) in Southern California that have opened their facilities to those refugees, offering a safe place to unroll their sleeping-bags, coffee in the morning and (perhaps) a simple breakfast and vouchers identifying local restaurants and other resources?
Checks that come in the mail don't filly your belly or keep you warm at night nor do they keep your family together RIGHT NOW!
Stories about people who have the situational awareness to see the immediate needs and have the intestinal fortitude to rise to the occasion are rarely carried by the Mainstream Media, maybe because regular folks are not on the MSM's radar.
It will be nice to recognize any churches or others who step-up. It might also be useful to those people who are still straggling in.
Amen.
ReplyDeleteAny organizations helping in the chaos.
Mercury One may be helping, I know they are helping the folks in N.Carolina
ReplyDeleteHey! They Ottsta head for Houston.. I'm just Sure Joel O'Stain will open the doors of his mega-church to people in trouble.
ReplyDeleteYou mean like Joel and Co didnt even open the church during Hurricane Harvey ?
DeleteYeah, Walt,,you nailed it..
DeleteI'm in Longview, Tx. We were going to church with a young woman who uprooted her life,gave up a good job, sold stuff off and moved to Houston to join that so called church. He's a Name it and Claim it professor of Gain through religion. IMO he is just another Jim and Tammy Faye Baker level of scam artist. Since you knew who he is,I'm guessing you what a sleaze he is.
Here in the Coachella Valley I have met several people who are staying with friends or in the vacation homes of friends, and have heard of many more. And the animal shelters are taking their own refugees too.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons I brought it up is that the church where Southern Belle and Handsome Hombre attend offers accommodations to people in need.
ReplyDeleteThe reason I know that is that they stayed there one night due to the furnace in their new home not working. For all I know, they might have a dozen cots, some sheets and blankets, just-in-case.
I asked a friend who is living in California ( More towards the North) what she had heard about relief efforts. She stated that , of course, most of the stories carried by the press involved the rich and famous. Many are indeed donating time and ( mainly)money . Often to the Red Cross. However she did also send me the following.
ReplyDeleteTo address several questions about who is providing aid to the survivors and misplaced.....
Disney donate $15M I think and other companies are too. Most everyone was affected. People lost everything but some still have jobs just no home. But this isn't over yet. No even close...
Because I know of some in a Southern Baptist Church (SBC) here I have some news on that. The SBC church and groups are providing food, shelter, and supplies to affected areas as we speak. Not sure the entire scope, but they are heavily involved as an outreach to bring people to Christ and help survivors.
Jennifer Garner's home church was destroyed but she belongs to another and that church is providing food and donations to survivors. As a longtime ambassador and board member for Save the Children, the actress has past experience helping with disaster relief around the country. Now, with a devastating crisis hitting close to home in California, her volunteer work is even more personal.
"Save the Children did this inside of shelters for years as part of our disaster relief. I've witnessed it all over the country. It's crazy that it's in my own backyard now," said Garner, 52, in an interview with NBC News while showing the latest efforts in partnership with Project:Camp. "When disaster strikes, they show up with trauma-informed care for kids."Some are paying for hotels for people who are displaced.
Samaritan's Purse, the outreach program from Frank Graham and Billy Graham Evangelical Foundation is actively giving supplies, food, support and possibly shelter to survivors in hit areas.
To my knowledge a lot of local churches in those areas and organizations are providing meals, clothing and donations to survivors and affected areas.
I donated $1000 to the Red Cross during Hurricane Katrina. I had relatives living in NOLA and I felt their pain. Come to find out that the CEO of Red Cross has a salary of $1 million/yr. So my donation paid for their salary from 9AM to noon one day. Screw the Red Cross. and the Salvation Army has gone woke, screw them too. Samaritan's Purse seems to be a reliable organization.
ReplyDeleteMy brother once worked for Salvation Army. Based on his tales of how they operate, I'll never donate to them again.
DeleteCheck CharityNavigator.com to see how much goes to actual target group
ReplyDeleteYou're kidding, right?
ReplyDeleteAt 20:1 odds, anyone who left those areas is getting a motel room. In some cases, up in Santa Barbara, or down in San Diego, and paying $100-$200/night. Because they can.
They're seldom the types that would be caught camping out in gyms or on church pews.
Even the less-well off will have friends or relatives who'll put them up in a spare room or on a sofa, in 99% of cases, and they'll do that fifty times before they'd take their chances at a shelter even once.
And any such traditional charity in SoCal would be swarmed and overwhelmed with homeless meth-heads and winos just grifting in about 15 minutes, at least until they found out they couldn't drink Thunderbird and shoot up drugs there.
This isn't Mayberry. Stuff that would work there doesn't, here.
On their best days locally, Red Cross and Satan's Army hand out motel vouchers, not cots and blankets.
Thanks for commenting.
DeleteFor those who don't know Aesop, (I think) he works in Orange County, California as an Emergency Room Nurse. Furthermore, he works the shit-hits-the-fan shift.
If he says "That is what will happen (in Southern California) you can bet money on it.