Water Bottlers Sending Aid

I finally got a few comments on my last blog entry, and I was relatively excited until I saw that they were just some kind of weird spammers. Anyway, VA Delegate Chris Saxman (an old friend whose family owns a bottled water business in my hometown) sent out an email today about Hurricane Katrina relief that I thought I would post:

"I spoke with one friend of mine, a water bottler in Oklahoma who has been running his operation 24/7 and in fact stayed until 3 am loading trucks himself, who received a call from a local resident who blasted him for not helping out the victims!

So, these are two updates as to what is actually going on.

Here at Shenandoah Water, we have donated and shipped out a tractor trailer load of over 4,500 gallons of bottled water. We are sending it to Columbia, Mississippi after the sheriff there called our trade association looking for help. The freight is being donated by a local company, Crosby Trucking.

In speaking with a dispatcher down in Columbia, which is just north and west of New Orleans, I was struck at the level of desperation that is occurring. She said that they need baby formula, diapers, water, ice, non perishable food. They are escorting trucks in with armed security. If you see any trucks heading to that area, PLEASE give them any other (of) the above items or any other items that they are requesting."

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