OT- Hurricane Helene, Check in here and let us know you are OK. Options

[ClayPerrine]

Betty and I are reading the news about hurricane Helene. It looks like it was really bad.

Check in and let us know that you are OK.

[Van B]

It’s been busy days for my squadron the last few weeks. I’ve got guys spread all over southern GA clearing roads, delivering supplies, evacuating, and relocating families. And many have been stepping up even when their own homes have sustained damage.

But, I think we’re finally on the back end of the relief efforts. Next is the long rebuilding phase.

[wonkipop]

It’s been busy days for my squadron the last few weeks. I’ve got guys spread all over southern GA clearing roads, delivering supplies, evacuating, and relocating families. And many have been stepping up even when their own homes have sustained damage.

But, I think we’re finally on the back end of the relief efforts. Next is the long rebuilding phase.

good on you mate.
thank christ western nations still have the military. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

i've just finished seeing the highlight of my career as an architect finished.
the tiniest and humblest building i have ever designed.
100 square meters of flame zone bushfire resistant community hall finished at a tiny little former timber town in the mountains down here. their hall burnt down in the apocalyptic bushfires of the summer of 2020. the stories those folks told me when i went to design meetings with them were hair raising.

it took the army 3 solid weeks to cut their way up the highway with chainsaws, bushmasters and quasi tanks getting rid of fallen burnt out trees before proper supplies could get in. helicopter drops from the army and airforce got them supplies to survive while they waited to be in contact with the outside world.

big props to the military. all of them. USA and Aus.

we have designed their hall not as a twee community hall.
no - its a survival shelter for a future disaster.
generators. deep freezer. big fridges. showers to wash the dirt off.
somewhere to go if your house gets completely destroyed.
and its got a carpark big enough to land a chopper in so they don't have to hover and winch down supplies.