Well today we went out to TARGET, LOWES, WALMART, and HOME DEPOT and loaded up on all the plastic totes, work gloves, flashlights, cases of water, neosporin , bandaids, socks, toothbrushes and toothpaste, snacks of all kinds, sunscreen, mosquito repelent, hair brushes, dust masks, and all kinds of other items.
We then headed out to Shawnee Oklahoma, Bethel Acres Oklahoma and the need was great. We handed out Items there along with cash to the folks and they were overcome with joy, there was alot of tears and hugging. They were very impressed when we gave them the sheets with all your names on it showing them who gave the donations.
We then headed to Moore Oklahoma. It was just so much worse than I could ever imagine, the pictures on TV do not do it justice. Some additions we could not get it but then there were plenty we could. We started handing out the donations in the first addition we turned in of about 8 city blocks. It was just block after block of devastation and the stories were incredible of survival. There was alot of hugs and tears here also when we were passing the items and cash out here as well. Today my wife, daughter , son in-law and I handed out the majority of the goods and will finish that up along with the cash we had in hand today of 2500.00 dollars. As soon as paypal releases the rest this week we will be handing out the rest in cash donations as it seems the influx of goods is really overwhelming coming in from around the country.
We found out that the cash donations are what is needed really bad for gasoline and just other general needs they have. So the plan is when the paypal comes in we will head back out this week to another neighborhood and hand out the rest of the cash. We have been giving each family 100.00 to spread the wealth around. We are pretty worn out physically and mentally from today, but it is a GOOD worn out!
They continually wanted us to tell you guys and gals thank you and god bless you for the help..Overall it was a great day!
I am loading up some pics from today and will post them up in the morning.
IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ANYMORE DONATIONS PLEASE SEND THEM TO THE AMERICAN RED CROSS AND SALVATION ARMY.....We seen these folks in action today feeding and helping all over the area, it was really neat to see it in person.
I am off to bed now to get rested up for the trek tomorrow ...thanks again guys and gals!
Ron
