yikes.
so this hurricane, huh? crazy. starting just before labor day, the office has been crazy. absolutely crazy. we've opened over 100 family cases in the last 13 days. all of these people have come up from louisianna and mississippi, staying with family and friends and trying to get their life back in order. and these are the people that are staying with people they know, we haven't even gotten the people they are shipping out to stay in the shelter at lambert airport.it's nice to know that i can help in some other way instead of just donating money. donating money is a great thing to do, don't get me wrong, but it feels even better to get in and talk to the people and hand them a credit card with $695 on it to get food and clothing. well, it feels nice when they don't try and spend that tax exempt money trying to buy new playstation games at the mall.
posted by kate @ 12:18 PM
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I have a friend who works at the furniture store West Elm. It's a fairly nice furniture store. Not really cheap. Well the other day his manager called a meeting to explain to everyone how to ring up the credit cards they were handing out to hurricane victims. You know, those victims that NEED brand new designer furniture. Shouldn't there be restrictions on where they can spend those things?
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