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[APO-L] Hurricane Katrina
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Cashman)
Sun Aug 28 23:20:41 2005
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:20:25 -0400
Reply-To: "Derek J. Cashman" <derek.cashman@gmail.com>
From: "Derek J. Cashman" <derek.cashman@gmail.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
As Hurricane Katrina bears down on the U.S. gulf coast, threatening the
cities of New Orleans, LA and Gulfport, MS, as a powerful category 5
storm, Alpha Phi Omega chapters and members will no doubt be called to
participate in relief efforts of some type. CNN is currently reporting
Katrina as potential the SECOND MOST POWERFUL hurricane since Camille in
1969. The storm surge is expected at around 25 feet and CNN already is
using words such as, "catastrophic" to describe the outcome.
To aid in coordinating the relief efforts, I have posted some
information on the national service website regarding the storm:
http://members.apo.org/service/
I will keep this as updated as I can with information concentrating on
the relief efforts, whom to contact, where to give, and so forth. Though
I won't be updating with live weather information, as I've just provided
a link to weather.com and wunderground.com there (the meteorologist's
already do a great job with that).
As chapters plan and execute relief service projects, we ask that the
details of the project be reported. While this is not mandatory (as is
the case with NSW or SYSD), reporting projects will help the national
fraternity in many ways, including allowing us to track the total number
of service hours, funds raised, and other stats about the national
efforts. Individual chapters will also greatly benefit by this by being
able to search the projects in the national service database for future
emergency response and other projects.
To facilitate in the reporting of projects, the service database has
been updated with a new PROJECT TYPE (Emergency Response Projects).
Chapters are also asked to put, "Hurricane Katrina Relief:" in the
PROJECT TITLE field as well, to assist in future searching.
Lastly, say a few prayers to whatever God you believe in, because this
one is going to be pretty bad. I hear there's still many people in New
Orleans itself that can't leave the city - supposedly 10,000 people are
being sheltered in the Superdome.
--
Derek J. Cashman, Ph.D.
derek.cashman@gmail.com
Leadership Development, Media & Technology, and Service Committees
Alpha Phi Omega
"A drug is any substance which, when injected into a rat, produces a publishable,
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