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To: Rambi who wrote (60056)	6/17/2001 10:45:41 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

It sounds like you had an adventure. I feel sorry for your friends, flooding causes problems that don't show up until later in many cases. Instead of a U-Haul you should have rented a boat. I have a friend who lives where the water table rose clear to the surface of the ground one summer. He ran 3 sump pumps 24 hours a day for 2 months to keep his basement from flooding.

To: Rambi who wrote (60056)	6/17/2001 4:03:04 PM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Too bad your friends' 24 rolls of paper towels couldn't have been stored in the grandfather clock. Sounds as if you had a more firsthand look at the flood than I did, as fortunately I was in the high'n'dry west side of Houston which got only 8" or so of rain. The east side had the double whammy of 30" of rain plus all the runoff from the west side, and sadly it was that section of lower-income people who have been least able to cope with the disaster. My church has joined a couple of east-side churches in providing disaster relief to the elderly and others in the area that need help. We've collected donations of money (about $300,000 thus far), food and household supplies for the victims. And we're sending out teams of ten people each to homes of some of the most needy to do basic cleanup work -- removal of carpeting and upholstered furniture and disinfectant cleaning of the walls and flooring. The donated money will be used to replace the carpeting and furnishings that were destroyed. The goal is to restore the people to normal living as soon as possible. I went out with one of the teams on Thursday. Of the ten people on the team, it was encouraging that six were high school and college-age young people who aren't members of the church but saw a report of the volunteer efforts on TV and wanted to help. We worked on two homes, both occupied by lone elderly people -- an 88-year-old man and an 86-year-old woman. Both had lived in their homes for 50 years or more and had never before been flooded. They seemed to be in fairly positive spirits given their seemingly dire circumstances, which seems to be a characteristic of many of that generation who were tempered by the Great Depression and World War II. For them, it seems as if the flood is just another of life's inconveniences that has to be dealt with, except that they are now in physical decline and have no family nearby to help them -- and of course their neighbors are mostly in the same situation. BTW, thanks for asking about my circumstances. Glad to hear that you were able to "flee" Houston and that CW was okay. Didn't hear any bad news about Rice, but the nearby Texas Medical Center experienced basement flooding and power outages, resulting in considerable problems for staff and patients and the drowning of many laboratory animals.