Daren Todd
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Lilfoot, ive found that its hit and miss for people volunteering for disaster cleanup. In this area, I found that unless you knew some folks that really wanted to help with the cleanup, you were on your own. But people not affected directly by the event would sure show up to take advantage of the charity.
When we got hit with the first tornado the debris field was 2 miles wide and wiped out the utility infrastructure for the area. We were with out power for about a week. Lost everything in the fridge and freezer due to not being able to use the truck to borrow my father in laws generator. We hadn't gotten one yet. And the windshield was spiderwebbed so bad you couldn't see out of it. We ended up firing up the grill and feeding the neighbors helpers and the neighborhood so the food wouldn't go to waste.
Anyway, a couple businesses donated a bunch of generators for use by those affected by the tornado. They figured after it was all said and done, most of those generators went to folks that weren't effected by the tornado. Same with the meal and water stations set up at the churches. Folks not affected were going in and getting cases of water and free meals.
Cleaning up at my house was a chore. We lost 14 trees, 3/4 of hem uprooted. Yard looked like a bomb went off. My brother in law and I were the only two cleaning up Said trees. A gal showed up later and volunteered to help. So she was lugging and tossing the cuts into brush piles. She called up to the church and they said they would send a crew over to help. Same thing happened each time. Folks would drive down to our address, look and see that it was actually work. Then drive off. I counted 15 vehicle's that day that turned around and drove off.
My conclusion is they would go to the church and sit around so they could say they helped and feel better about themselves. But didn't actually want to do anything.
When we got hit with the first tornado the debris field was 2 miles wide and wiped out the utility infrastructure for the area. We were with out power for about a week. Lost everything in the fridge and freezer due to not being able to use the truck to borrow my father in laws generator. We hadn't gotten one yet. And the windshield was spiderwebbed so bad you couldn't see out of it. We ended up firing up the grill and feeding the neighbors helpers and the neighborhood so the food wouldn't go to waste.
Anyway, a couple businesses donated a bunch of generators for use by those affected by the tornado. They figured after it was all said and done, most of those generators went to folks that weren't effected by the tornado. Same with the meal and water stations set up at the churches. Folks not affected were going in and getting cases of water and free meals.
Cleaning up at my house was a chore. We lost 14 trees, 3/4 of hem uprooted. Yard looked like a bomb went off. My brother in law and I were the only two cleaning up Said trees. A gal showed up later and volunteered to help. So she was lugging and tossing the cuts into brush piles. She called up to the church and they said they would send a crew over to help. Same thing happened each time. Folks would drive down to our address, look and see that it was actually work. Then drive off. I counted 15 vehicle's that day that turned around and drove off.
My conclusion is they would go to the church and sit around so they could say they helped and feel better about themselves. But didn't actually want to do anything.
