Laura's mom and dad are coming over to take care of the kids, though they
may all go to a hotel.  Power is not expected back on in Columbus until
Sunday.  There goes all of our Sheraton points (LOL!).  Mags, I would call
the Red Cross and see what they say.  If they won't take the, try the
Salvation Army.  There are other charities that would probably take them.
If I wasn't so darn tired I could probably rattle off a half dozen, but I am
just about shot.  You ever get too tired to sleep?  That's where I am right
now.  I lie down and my mind races.  Been trying to nap, but it's just not
working.  I shouldn't complain--lots of folks have been on their feet
non-stop from the wee hours to the wee hours.

Again, if you know anyone who has cash to spare, ask them to send it to the
Red Cross or Salvation Army.  They have the infrastructure to turn cash into
help pretty quickly.  They're pretty much out of money right now.  I don't
really like their administrative cost to service ratio, but their people are
well trained.  Salvation Army has better efficiencies, but their focus is
primarily feeding folks.  They're not big into shelter management.

We just got in some waterless body scrub (same thing the astronauts used
before they figured out how to contain water in space), so I'm going to give
it a go.  What I wouldn't give for a HOT shower <sigh>.  Oh, almost forgot.
I broke my AFO today.  One of the nurses repaired it with this resin stuff
that they make casts out of.  Worked so well I might not even get it
replaced when I get home.  I am surrounded by geniuses and heroes!

G'nite!

Kyle

Sent from Kyle Cleveland's Palm IIIc

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Tamar Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Who's going to watch
> wow kyle, yes I would say that is surely irony.
>
> Who's going to watch your kids when Laura leaves?
>
> I have a big box of baby wipes and tampons that I sent to Louisiana back
> during katrina, I figured women would still get their periods and need to
> clean up. for reasons I don't know, the box was sent back to me. Do you
> think red cross would take them?
>
> Stay dry!
> mag
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: KE Cleveland <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 1:01:57 PM
> Subject: I found some irony in Ike
>
> I just got a message from home that the remnants of Ike came through Ohio
> between 4:00 and 8:00 yesterday.  My hometown, Powell, OH experienced 74
> mph
> winds with substantial damage to trees and power lines.  For the moment, my
> little suburban development of about 50 homes has power, but most of the
> surrounding community does not.  The power lines are underground in my
> 'hood, but that's not the case in most areas.  Laura says we lost two very
> old, very large pin oak trees that were uprooted--one demolished the
> neighborhood picnic gazebo.  The city finished construction on that about a
> month ago. :-(
>
> According to Laura, our neighborhood has quite a few visitors.  Friends and
> family (ours and those of our neighbors) are stopping by to shower and cook
> meals (lots of "all electric" homes around here).  Too funny!
>
> She said about half of the homes in the Columbus metro area are without
> power.  Almost all of the corporate tree surgeons like Asplundh and Davey
> have their crews down here--there's a call out for people with chainsaws to
> assist the electric companies and fire departments.  Laura says there have
> been 4 fatalities in the state and about 1 million homes without power in
> the state.  We are committed down here in Houston with a lot of assets in
> place.  It would be a nightmare for us to try to re-deploy back home
> immediately, so we are trying to figure out if there are troops available
> in
> Ohio to help with the cleanup.  Still, we are pushing to get the process
> started, if at all possible.  The problem is finding transportation back
> north.  Just about every vehicle in the inventory is down here    If this
> ain't irony, I don't know what is.
>
> The situation here is pretty chaotic.  We have set up an aid station in
> cooperation with the Red Cross.  Their assets are running very low, so we
> are handing out HUMRATS (humanitarian rations) and water.  I don't know
> what
> the water situation is like, but I do know that we have been forbidden to
> shower--even with cold water.  We are making do with baby wipes and talcum
> powder at present.  We deployed with three sets of the new ACU uniforms,
> but
> mine are absolutely filthy.  Many of us brought along our old BDU uniforms
> and black boots out of habit, even though the Army has phased them out.
> Commander's have the option of allowing their troops to wear the BDU if
> they
> have them.  Some commanders are allowing this, some aren't.  Fortunately,
> my
> boss has given the thumbs up, so I have a stack of nice, clean uniforms
> that
> should (hopefully) last the duration.  I don't have enough brown t-shirts,
> but I bought a couple of green ones from a Marine Reservist.  I doubt that
> anyone would care, at this point.
>
> Things don't seem to be drying out much.  I would say that there is
> probably
> a lot more water damage than wind damage--at least in the areas that I've
> been in.  I flew over downtown Houston yesterday.  There were lots of
> windows blown out in the skyscrapers, but I couldn't see much more than
> that.  We were going pretty fast.  I do know that there was no electricity
> downtown.  Come to think of it, I haven't seen a lightbulb yet that wasn't
> connected to a generator.  We flew east over the ship channel and there was
> lots of debris, but I didn't see a whole lot of damage from the height we
> were at.  The chemical plants looked ok, but I didn't know what I was
> looking at--just a bunch of tanks and pipes.  The fires had been
> extinguished by the time we got there.
>
> We flew over the bay and swung southwest to follow Galveston ilsand from
> the
> east.  The number of aircraft in the air ware terrifying!  It looked like
> swarming bees.  I couldn't tell if there were any news helipcopters, but
> Coast Guard, National Guard, Police and Medical helos were everywhere.
> Lots
> of fixed-wing planes here and there, as well.  Galveston is pretty much
> gone.  I didn't see a single street that was dry.  It was actually neat, in
> a weird way, to see boats tooling around like cars.  Must be what Venice is
> like.
>
> Haven't seen any death yet, thankfully.  I hope it stays that way.
> Tomorrow
> I'm heading out with a Chaplain to see what we can do for the local
> faith-based charities.  Oh, and Laura leaves for Israel tomorrow morning at
> 7:00.  I'd hope I would have made it home before then, but it just didn't
> work out.
>
> More later.
>
> Kyle
>
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