Hurricane Katrina

[skrilla]

I dont know if im allowed to do this, but it must be done. I was asked to pass this message along to anyone that i know. so here goes

Ok. This is how it is.. i just left the red cross center here in town... looking at all of the victims.

what you see on tv is nothing.

whole familes have died from hurricane katrina and millions of people have no homes to go back to.

they are stuck from home with minimum supplies.

im sure most of you havent spent much time thinking about this disaster.. but i want you to right now.

i want you to imagine sitting on your roof.. or trapped in a room in your house.. for days. no food, no water, no air conditioner!

you could hang right? you could deal with the hunger.. with the dead bodies floating by you.

but what about when your lil brother/ sister/ child starts to cry from hunger pains. that complete feeling of helplessness sets in. knowing theres nothing you can do but sit there and watch them suffer.

today i met a guy that wished he would have stayed on the first floor of him home.. and drowned instead of watching the pain his family went through.

anyways... im sure youve all seen the damage done. but know.. they arent showing the worse parts.. they are mainly showing the big towns. yea thats what it did to nice homes.. now imagine those small communities with trailor houses.. low income families.

if you fly over parts of la.. all you see are red x's on homes... thats the homes with dead people trapped inside.

if you read all of that im happy.

make me happier tho... go to the red cross site and donate some money... these people need basic supplies.

its not money to rebuild thier homes... its money for them to eat.. drink.. sleep for the next 4-6 weeks and some longer until they can return home.

i bet your first reaction is.. i dont have any money i want to give up. okay.. you can mail in a donation of a dollar. im sure most of you have more then that sitting on your desk in change.

if just MY friends on here donated one dollar each... it would be 4,975.00 thats a lot of water for people who have none.

if you donate online with a debit/credit card.. its a minimum of 5.00.

thats one of your meals at mcdonalds.. and we all know we can afford to skip one meal.. when some people havent been able to eat since saturday.

if all of you donated just 5 bucks.. it would total out to 24,875.00.

thats a lot of good people.

anyways heres how you do it...


for an online donation of 5.00 or more

To send in a check for 1.00 or more
send it to...

American National Red Cross
2025 E St NW
Washington, DC
20006

in the memo write.. Hurricane Katrina.

also.. it would be awesome if you reposted this in your bulletins.. just to get the word out more..

If I am not allowed to post this please do not take points from me as it is for a good cause.