You can afford to read this site at this moment so you can afford to give something to the Red Cross. Watch these videos to see why your help is needed. [Page One]
And then head over to the Red Cross site and make a donation marked for disaster relief. [Red Cross]
Kentucky Emergency Management says cash contributions are more important at this point than hard goods. So give to the Red Cross like we’ve been saying for a week. [CLICK HERE]
Did you know? Louisville is still fat and unhealthy. Was this a good even or a cheerleading session? We’re honestly asking, not being jerks. [C-J/AKN]
Guess who got his prosthetic leg! This is why Louisville can have nice things. [Click Here]
We’re all thankful that UPS made a $100,000 contribution to the Red Cross. More wealthy folks and businesses need to do the same. [Giving Back]
We’re linking this story again because it’s getting swept under the rug with all the tornado coverage. You’re going to be paying big tolls to cross the bridges. [FOX41]
Smart paint promises to make it easier to identify and repair cracks or corrosion in bridges and other infrastructure. We know a few Louisville bridges that are sorely in need of this. [The Economist]
At least this video from WAVE3 is better than that self-serving thing they did patting themselves on the back for tornado coverage. [WAVE3]
Ford CEO Alan Mulally got $34.5 million in stock. He can totally afford to give a couple hundred thousand to the Red Cross. [Business First]
This woman. She is precisely why you need to support tornado relief efforts. Watch the video. [WLKY]
The Mine Safety and Health Administration released an internal review of its actions prior to the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. [WFPL]
If you’re dumb enough to get scammed out of money when helping tornado victims in 2012, that’s your fault. Give directly to the Red Cross. You don’t need to know anything else. You don’t even have to give during one of these television events, either. Just give to the Red Cross. [WHAS11]
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1 G'town Reader // Mar 7, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Besides scammers & predators, I found another turnoff yesterday regarding the tornado devastation. Maybe no one else reacted as I did. Maybe many others are of the same mind as the victim who was briefly quoted in a local newscast. A FEMA official who addressed the job ahead of them, commented that the maximum dollar value of their aid to any family who lost their home & possessions is capped at $31,400, or thereabouts. When the reporter informed an on-air victim of this maximum amount of aid, the victim sneered, saying, “Well, THAT won’t do much of anything…” My gut response was that it isn’t the role of the government to restore his lifestyle. Instead, that’s the function of his INSURANCE COMPANY. Or up to his own abilities & economies – perhaps with help from generous family, friends, & strangers. Just because you are uninsured – whatever your reason – you then have to be willing to shoulder most of the consequences. (I think low-interest mortgages are often offered along with FEMA grants.) Anyway, I felt the same outrage at this victim’s “scorn” as I did when MSD incomprehensibly paid for flooding damage to people who CHOSE to live in a flood plain without flood insurance.
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