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One of our volunteer rescue crews just picked up a very good boy. Scared, but loves head scratches and tuna packets. 1000/10 for it making through
#HurricaneIan
.
@dog_rates
pls confirm our assessment thx
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We are en route with 3 boats and a high-water truck to LaPlace LA, eta 1hr.
To request help -->
Always call 911 FIRST in an emergency; help is NOT guaranteed.
#Ida
#HurricaneIda
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Team has made it to LaPlace and is commencing rescues ASAP 🙌
We are starting with known addresses where someone is in the attic, then going door-by-door.
Sending more teams via the same route.
To request help -->
#HurricaneIda
#Ida
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Thank you
@Whataburger
for donating hundreds of taquitos to help us distribute to those still stranded, without food or water, from the RGV floods!
When they say they still love Texas despite the ownership change - we believe it!
#texasforever
#texanshelpingtexans
<3 <3 <3
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Major props to Station 42019, the little buoy that could.
All other stations in the path are offline, but it's still pumping out data while
#HurricaneBeryl
passes overhead.
Somebody give this buoy a raise, we're all counting on you 42019!
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We have been engaged in swiftwater rescues and wellness checks in western NC since around 1 AM ET 09/28
Request Help:
Donate:
Please RT for visibility.
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We have very few NC/TN updates right now.
Conditions, communications, and access are all miserable on the ground.
These are some of the most agonizing moments during the response cycle: the long silence. The longer night.
But hope is coming, it always does. Hang in there
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🚨We are activated for
#HurricaneIda
🚨
If you need help or can volunteer👉
Help is not guaranteed. ALWAYS call 911 in an emergency.
To help remotely 👉
To donate 👉
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Houston is in crisis. We need help.
These are monstrous, unacceptable conditions. There must be real accountability when this is over.
In the meantime, we'll keep at it, as we try to deliver generators, food, and water to senior citizens abandoned in the 100° days and terribly
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If you go into your attic, make sure you have the ability to cut your way out of it.
Rescuers will be coming as soon as humanly possible; winds are flipping the boat trailers.
Situation in Laplace is dire with excessive rainfall on top of surge. Rain starting to lift north some. If retreating to attics as a last resort take tools to break or cut through roofs
#lawx
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A SAR team has just checked out of Laplace to take a breather - they cleared 60 houses for a total ~175 people rescued
The convoy of LA-TF2 and 3 of our SAR teams were arriving - as a result, we expect all cases to be cleared by this afternoon.
#Ida
#HurricaneIda
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🚨 We are active for Hurricane Idalia🚨
If you or your family needs help during the storm 👉
Request will be shared with a network of SAR volunteers.
ALWAYS call 911 in an emergency.
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🚨 Activating for Texas Freeze 🚨
We are active at .
If you or your family are facing dangerous temperatures, please reach out. We are attempting to warm vulnerable seniors with space heaters / generators.
ALWAYS CALL 911 in an emergency.
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@_justBrittani
Bank limits won't let us send the full $25,000.
A message was sent to Heights HS to get in contact with the family.
We'll also send emails to
@heightshsband
, who posted it.
If anyone knows them --> connect
@crowdsourcerescue
.org
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CSR volunteers have rescued or accounted for 609 missing people in NC as of 10/02.
If you are missing family members, please check our list:
If you have heard from your family, please let us know so we can divert SAR volunteers elsewhere. PLEASE RT.
CSR volunteers have rescued or accounted for 460 missing people in NC.
If you are missing family members, please check our spreadsheet:
If you have heard from your family, please let us know so we can take them off our missing list.
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🚨 We are active for Hurricane Ian🚨
If you or your family needs help during the storm👉
Request will be shared with a network of SAR volunteers.
ALWAYS call 911 in an emergency.
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@mojofearless
Repaying the favor to LA. First day of Harvey was one of the worst days of my life.
I sat and my office and cried the first time I got a call from someone with a Cajun accent I could barely understand talking about boats. I knew my city was saved then.
- matt
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First boats in the water. America's Cajun Navy has launched into the good night with
@CityofNewBern
FD.
Anybody who says civilian responders and spontaneous volunteers are a danger - point to tonight. Point to Harvey.
Volunteers 👏save 👏lives 👏 when 👏we 👏work👏 together.
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The
@BuzbeeLaw
firm has given a blank check to getting as many elderly residents into warm spaces as possible.
We're currently working on moving elderly residents into hotels, as well as sourcing generators for nursing homes without power.
Houston is striking back! 💪💪
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From a volunteer as he heads back to Houston:
"I want to state that I previously had thought I wasn’t going to share this.
Chimney Rock is gone.
Its almost entirely military personnel. I don’t wish to elaborate any further on the rest of this experience. These workers,
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Rescue requests are starting to flow in rapidly.
We will not be able to keep up with each tag.
Follow this to help:
In general, direct folks needing assistance towards and/or send them this image.
We'll need help all night!
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Rescue teams have launched in Fort Meyers and are engaged in multiple active high-water rescues.
Add as much info as you can here -->
CALL 911 FIRST.
Help is 100% not guaranteed. But promise to do everything in our power to help FL.
#HurricaneIan
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The
@HoustonFoodBank
always comes through!
Made an emergency ask to fill up a box truck and get people who hadn't eaten in 24 hours some food tonight.
They had our box truck there and loaded within the hour. ♥️
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Crews have been out most of the day in Englewood area, doing wellness checks and evacuations.
FYI, we don't post pictures of survivors. Mostly just trucks, water, and damages.
Would get more likes, but it's a dick move to use someone for SM likes on one of their worst days.🤷♀️
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Developing situation at a senior complex up in Conroe. Bad situation; no power, no food, no water.
Helping move people to ER, looking for overnight shelter for power dependent medical equipment. Unsafe and dangerous. Trying to flag to appropriate authorities
Will update as it
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Media - teams can be made available after life safety phase passes.
We don't send pictures of survivors.
Under no circumstances do we connect media w/ survivors directly; it's an abuse of the power dynamic on our part. They may not want to talk but may feel obligated if we ask
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Several fixed wing airplanes will be landing at KFQD in Rutherfordton NC with relief.
We will have one available for evacs and critical medical supplies.
HOWEVER - need a 2800' clesr runway nearby.
Many areas are only accessible by air.
1/2
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Involved in situation in
#LakeCharles
with senior home where staff abandoned.
Med volunteers on site. Residents currently in AC'd trucks due to heat exhaustion. Doing insulin and BP checks, as well as meal delivery.
2nd abandoned senior home found in
#Laura
.
#HurricaneLaura
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Looking at sign-ups, we had ~600 people between the hours of 11PM and 5AM decide that rather than sleeping they'd help those in
#Ida
's path by working remotely via
You are are sort of humans🤗. Thank youuuuuu.
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ETA DELAYED. Can't make it further than NOLA without the boats flipping.
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CSR volunteers have rescued or accounted for 460 missing people in NC.
If you are missing family members, please check our spreadsheet:
If you have heard from your family, please let us know so we can take them off our missing list.
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Reports that some individuals in Louisville CO can’t evacuate because they are without power and can’t get their vehicles out of their garages. All garages have a red handle INSIDE that allows you to manually open your garage. Pull the handle to open your garage door.
#Colorado
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Confirmed Rescues 👉
We've rescued 230 people on Thur as of 5PM
Please view spreadsheet for your family!
We have ~150 additional unconfirmed rescues - will appear in Fri's report.
Requests:
Donate:
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A huge thanks to
@poweredxpeople
/
@BetoORourke
who will be utilizing their crisis call center to reach out to our existing tickets and confirm details! Should great speed our efforts!
We're so very grateful and thank you to all who worked to connect us!
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If any org / agency reaches out to us with a TX resident needing a hotel, we'll pay for it.
We can't find hotels room - but if they do, we'll cover it on their behalf.
We cannot contribute directly to general public, but want to make sure $ isn't an issue for hotel rooms.
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@breerunwaystan
This GFM throws a lot of 🚩 flags.
The name Marcus does not appear on the official list of victims released by
@houstonpolice
:
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First picture coming out of Sanibel from volunteer rescue teams. Help has arrived.
Comms suck, we're dirty, we're tired, but you have our word we'll never give up. We got your back Florida❤️
help:
donate:
#Ian
#HurricaneIan
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We've activated for COVID-19.
If you are in Houston and need food, please go here:
We have volunteers who can help deliver food (thanks to
@HoustonFoodBank
), via a no-contact delivery method.
Together, we'll out-smart and out-innovate this virus. 💪
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On scene now in Laplace with LA-TF2. Most of this was entirely underwater < 12 hrs ago.
The crews will starts street by street, house by house search, starting with 911 and calls, but ultimately working to ensure the entire area is safe.
#ida
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Monitor "trusted local sources". What does that mean?
For us, in Houston area it's:
Agencies:
@HoustonOEM
@ReadyHarris
@hcfmo
@HoustonFire
Officials:
@JeffLindner1
@FireChiefofHFD
@DisasterPIO
Weather:
@SpaceCityWX
@mattlanza
@NWSHouston
Among others!
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One of our SAR teams, Tidewater Disaster Response, is headed to
#Lafitte
to help rescue remaining residents trapped in their homes.
#HurricaneIda
#Ida
Please support if you can 👉
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We are making another attempt at LaPlace. A team is also trying for Lafitte.
Success is absolutely not guaranteed; winds are still high.
Anyone needing help please call 911 FIRST.
We're accepting rescue requests at .
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This place is a dumpster fire tonight.
But there is also nothing new under the sun.
The false misinformation floating around is the same misinformation that comes after every storm. There are always rumors of mass panic, mass graves, space lasers, etc. blah blah
There are
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Rescue map as of 1:00 AM ET.
For transparency, we're unlikely to get to all homes tonight. Working as fast as we can.
If you can volunteer, we could use all the help we can get -->
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Launched a search and rescue team into Ukraine, to help rescue and evacuate people w/ disabilities.
Team made it in safely early this morning.
Rescues and evacuations begin tomorrow.
Godspeed to all on the ground, may we all do what we can.🇺🇦
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Three more of our teams have linked up with LA-TF2 (one of the federal teams that are the best-of-the-best in SAR).
They are staged and will soon deploy into Laplace with the cavalry.
Hope comes in the morning. IT ALWAYS DOES.
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2 search and rescue teams are actively working through requests in Port Charlotte.
We have evacuated several senior citizens to a nearby shelter, at their request.
Will have specific ticket updates through the night as we clear them.
#Ian
#HurricaneIan
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We continue to search for missing loved ones in the aftermath of
#Helene
.
But before the trucks, before the trailers... comes volunteers with dirt bikes and chainsaws to clear a path up the mountains.
If you have an ATV and can help, please volunteer at
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Floridians in Milton's path should take photos of any damage caused by Helene.
Insurance companies / FEMA have been known to ask people to prove which hurricane or disaster caused which specific damage.
So if your home gets hit by Helene AND Milton, you may need to show which
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Update from one of the volunteer SAR crews,
@StormPoint1
working rescue requests near Venice.
#Ian
#HurricaneIan
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CSR volunteers have rescued or accounted for 460 missing people in NC, including 130 seniors and 53 children.
Please check the subsequent spreadsheet for your family members.
If you have requested help from CSR and heard from your family, please let us know.
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Our *very* unconfirmed numbers are we have accounted for 45 wellness checks and ~30 swift water rescues.
When dispatch gets some breathing room, we'll work to confirm. We work to double-confirm before closing out a request.
#Ian
#HurricaneIan
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SAR team making good progress towards Port Charlotte.
Have chainsaws, paramedics, and advanced USAR skills. Hoping to respond to rescue and wellness checks requests through the night.
#Ian
#HurricaneIan
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Last known position of LaPlace teams was 5mi outside of city limits at 2:20 AM.
5mi can take 5 min or 3 hours after a Cat-4. Won't have a ton info til 8 or 9AM probably.
We don't call it the long night for nothing.
The first night is awful. 1/
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We need more volunteers in WNC for rescues, wellness checks, and relief delivery!!
Volunteer here:
Theres a short training (10 minutes), then youre off to the races.
Reasonable amount of self sufficiency is required.
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ETA REMAINS DELAYED
This is misinfo at this point, by our own hand.
We haven't deleted the tweet because tickets continue to come in through it.
Again, ETA is NOT 1hr. We expect 2 - 3hrs at this point.
@jack
@TwitterSupport
make a damn edit button for crisis orgs pls
We are en route with 3 boats and a high-water truck to LaPlace LA, eta 1hr.
To request help -->
Always call 911 FIRST in an emergency; help is NOT guaranteed.
#Ida
#HurricaneIda
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If remote volunteers could stay up with us through the night, we'd appreciate it.
To volunteer remotely:
Coffee helps. Drink lots of water, make sure to eat, turn away if you need to.
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Horses and other large animals in coastal areas of SC/NC need to be evacuated. Some owners don’t have enough space and/or trailers to get them to a safe place before
#HurricaneFlorence
and time is ticking! Reach out if you can help!
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From a family member, makes our heart swell. Our volunteer dispatchers are incredible ❤️
----
"Last night one of the volunteer rescue groups, CrowdSource Rescue, called me to see if my loved one was still missing. The girl on the phones name was Jackie and she was answering
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We are now accepting rescue requests on .
If you need to be rescued, call 911 first, then make a request on that link.
We will get overwhelmed on tags - please use this link to request assistance.
#Laura
#HurricaneLaura
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On phone w/ main Chico dist center: volunteers are literally crying.
Please. 👏Stop. 👏 Sending. 👏 Physical. 👏Donations
Secondary disaster has been created with overflow.
Send cash, gift cards, or donate to North Valley Community Fund ().
#CampFire
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HEADS UP:
We are looking at extended ops in
#Ida
which means we will start sending trucks from Hou to resupply teams and deliver aid.
In the next day or so we'll announce drop-off points for needed relief.
For next 24ish hrs though, rescue has our focus.
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@SheriffEd_HCSO
- We made an app that rescued 30,000 people via 8,000 civilian rescuers. As far as we know, none were sitting around "watching the storm"; they were helping their neighbors.
Thanks for your comments in the
@HoustonChron
yesterday and for having our back. 👊
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Most water rescues are wrapping up; we'll update the site as we double-confirm them and message any family members we know of.
We'll start wellness checks shortly; a team is enroute to Houma.
To be perfect honest - we're gassed. Not much expected overnight. Naps are in order😴
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@katerodger
@BetoORourke
We're a local Houston non-profit that is providing heat, food, and water to those affected by the storm. To request help, please go to and we'll dispatch volunteers!
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When this is over, we're gonna have a long with
@jack
/
@twittersupport
/
@verified
/ whoever will listen about giving crisis non-profits an EDIT button.
Reposted our last tweet; had a typo on the url.
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🚨WE ARE LIVE FOR RESCUES IN THE BAHAMAS 🚨
IF YOU NEED HELP FILL OUT THIS FORM
It'll be shared w/ first responders & civilian responders.
If you're helping rescue in
#Bahamas
, please register!
#Dorian
#HurricaneDorian
#Freeport
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Lafitte team has made it as far as they can go on; dropping boat in the rest of the way.
Seems minimal assets there currently - flagging up the official chains.
We expect to begin rescues/evacs within 30 min. Will have pics at some point - gives comfort to families.
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@LilSportyD
Can you make a request at ? We'll try to send a volunteer crew out ASAP. Ida is currently making conditions difficult.
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There are spots in Ian's impact zone that we have tremendous concern about and we are considering the ways we msg that.
Given the high # of retirees, we also have a very high # of family members trying to glean any info they can.
We're trying to be sensitive in our approach.
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Emails like these make it all worth it. Hang in there NC, hope comes in the morning. ❤️
--
"Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
My family can breathe after 6 days of absolute chaos.
My parents, stepsister and her husband were trapped along with their neighbors in Bat Cave
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On a personal note, my 98 year old grandmother was picked up from Houma today by my parents.
Family tried to evacuate her, but couldn't because of traffic.
Not everybody has family who can pick them up, which is exactly one of the reason CSR exists.
-
@m_marchetti
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Is it rude to ask multi-billion dollar media companies for a donation when they ask for rights to videos volunteers took?
Asking for a... friend. 🙂
We always just say yes; but, like, y'all know most volunteers pay their own way, supply their own boats/equipment, right?
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No major notes in Port Charlotte area, in terms of life safety.
Plenty of debris, no cell, no power. 2 - 4 feet of water, but receding fast.
Biggest thing was some initially pissed off residents that we woke up to let them know their friends & family were worried 🙈.
#Ian
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@Gvmbit_
Can you make a request at ? We'll try to send a volunteer crew out ASAP. Ida is currently making conditions difficult.
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Photo of the agencies responding. Glad they were there, thankful they responded.
Yet, low income seniors, still remain in the street overheating.
More resources than you can shake a stick at in LA.
So why is it up to underfunded VOADs and volunteers to solve these problems?
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We hope we're making our hometown proud ❤️
CrowdSource Rescue was founded when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in 2017. Now, the group is coordinating volunteer search and rescue efforts in areas hit hard by Hurricane Helene.
@stephengoin
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We'd say "until next time" - but with any luck, hopefully not.
We're mostly back to Texas and will deactivate shortly.
Thank you to each and every volunteer that got dirty with us and for all the prayers & support. Keep SWFL in your heart.❤️
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Remote vols: reminder to get up, drink some water, eat some food, and take a walk around the block if you've been at this for a bit.
This work is overwhelming, high-adrenaline, and we'll see it regular chew people up.
Don't play with your own mental health.
#Ida
#HurricaneIda
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We currently have generator teams that are going to homes without power to warm elderly Houstonians.
If you have space heaters we can use, please DM.
Working in tandem with
@METROHouston
and
@HoustonOEM
to have seniors in hotels by nightfall.
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Update: After our tweet, official comes by, saw the scene, said he was going to
@GOHSEP
to "raise hell".
Variety of agencies respond. Say residents will be taken to shelters in buses.
2 hours later... no buses. No responses.
Somebody get this fixed. Raise more hell.
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Crews worked through the night, but we are definitely backlogged.
Hoping day break brings a little bit of hope, as roads start to clear and systems come back online.
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We get it. Really do. Not our first rodeo - disasters are complicated.
But honestly? This is some bullshit. On a lot of different fronts.
Where are the buses? Why weren't they evacuated to begin with?
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Photo of team making an attempt for Laplace, back in 2019 during TS Imelda.
They flooded their trucks to get Winnie TX and rescued 125.
Not saying they'll make it; winds weren't a factor in Imelda. But by God they'll try.
Cling fiercely to hope; so many people are trying❤️
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There is a popular belief that people who don't evacuate are stubborn or stupid.
Research doesn't bear that out though; financial reasons are by far and away the
#1
reason for not evacuating.
Be helpful in your calls to evacuate. Yelling at people doesn't work.
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Red dots (requests for help) filling up on our map.
But guess what? So are the orange dots (volunteers).
Houston is helping to rescue Houston.
Just like we did in Harvey, just like we'll do again here.
#HoustonStrong
#TexasStrong
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Team headed to Lafitte is roundabouts Gretna.
Roads are terrible; having to cut through trees and dodge powerlines. Slow going.
Will update with pic when we get them - gives some peace to family that something is being done.
Cling to hope. Tonight will be long.
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Confirmed Rescues 👉
We've rescued 785 people as of Sat 4AM
Please view spreadsheet if you're still not in contact with a family member!
Help:
Donate:
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We are down to 10 outstanding requests.
NO ONE WILL BE FORGOTTEN. VOLUNTEERS CONTINUE TO SEARCH.
However, our Helene missing person form will likely be deactivated early tomorrow morning.
We've found it good practice to give everyone a heads up. Don't want anyone to feel
We are down from ~700 rescue / wellness check requests to just 63.
WE ARE CONTINUING TO WORK EXISTING REQUESTS. NO ONE WILL BE FORGOTTEN!
However, in the coming days we are likely to disable our request form.
Again, we will continue to work existing cases!
Don't want
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We're calling it - we cannot possibly keep up with the case load coming in utilizing our SAR volunteers alone. It's like drinking from a firehose.
We need ANY and all available volunteers tomorrow, particularly those with 4x4 or trucks, to help deliver.
Please help if able!
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There's lots of orgs involved tonight and it gets confusing.
There's also 7 big branches of the Cajun Navy, which doesn't help w/ the confusion.
We work super well with
@CajunNavy2016
.
In the end, just get in a boat, doesn't matter who is driving.
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Good morning🌞!
Our
#Ida
response has concluded; all activities are relief-related.
Civilian SAR teams were able to rescue 1,967 people and perform wellness checks on another 785.
We continue to be in LA to assist relief partners, remove debris, and do shelter transports.
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