"To: NautiNurse
Thanks for the thread, I want to know where are the food companies, the clothing companies, Heinz, Libby's, Hunts, Del Monte: The GAP, Old Navy, Dillard's?
I'm to angry right now to even type. Why are the above not donating supplies, where are the hotels, chain restaurants, shoe stores, etc? Taking matching fund?"
Thery are, there was a whole list this AM.
Lilly is donating truckloads of drugs and $1 million to the Red Cross, for just one example.
People need to remember this is Thursday.
The storm hit Monday, the devastation actually began to become clear on Tuesday.
There is no miracle solution.
Trucks are coming with food, water, clothing, and supplies.
Right now the anarchy of the few thugs that don't seem to want the rescuers to actually be allowed to do their work is the biggest deterrant to relief.
By the end of this American companies will have donated supplies and aid totalling half a billion or more. Count on it.
Thousands and thousands of volunteers from SAR crews to ARC workers to church volunteers are converging as we speak. FEMA and various NG elements are working night and day. What they need is our support and prayers, and they need to people of NOLA to help them not fight them in their relief efforts.