OT: Help Alabama

[lazypadawan]

An unbelievable 200 people are dead in Alabama alone after Wednesday's tornado rampage and scores of survivors have lost literally everything. Additional casualties and damage were reported in GA, MS, TN, and VA. Here's how to help:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/alabama-tornado-2011-storm-victims/story?id=13477481

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/responding_to_deadly_tornadoes/?utm_campaign=AL&utm_content=http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/responding_to_deadly_tornadoes/&utm_medium=Argyle+Social&utm_source=twitter

You might want to check with local Humane Societies and shelters for help with animal rescue.

Comments

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry to hear that... you get terrible tornados over there in the US. :(

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

I don't live in tornado country (whew) but I went to college in Missouri, which is in the middle of the country, I had to head for the basement a couple of times. Fortunately, we never got hit by anything.

[ansketil-rose.livejournal.com]

It's so terrible. There have been so many disasters recently, so many people left without their homes in the world, their lives torn apart by nature. It's horrifying.

I'm from NZ but my father has subscribes sky television which has American channels. And it was on Wednesday that I made my first acquaintance with Fox. This lady was suggesting that more hurricanes are related to the warmer waters in the Gulf of Mexico and the amount of horrible personal insults the so-called "journalists" shot at her had me speechless.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

American cable news shows can be pretty contentious, especially when you get pundits, activists, and politicians to discuss that sort of thing.

There have been bad years for tornadoes before and this just happens to be one of them.

[a-blue-moon-cat.livejournal.com]

I live in the Deep South, but where I live and where my bf lives were spared, but there were tornados north and south of us.

LJ now has a new gift to help with the aid efforts, too.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

I saw that. And there's helpthesouth.