Mormons on the move!
http://vimeo.com/53357089?action=share

Aparently, a lot of LDS folks arrived at the
Hurricane Sandy disaster area, and pitched in
to help. Nice video.

I did something similar to this, earlier this year.
Helped with some flood damage, closer to home.
Great team spirit, much like you see in the video.
The home owners were very nice, and very
grateful.

Christopher A. Young
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On 11/16/2012 11:00 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
Mormons on the move!
http://vimeo.com/53357089?action=share

Aparently, a lot of LDS folks arrived at the
Hurricane Sandy disaster area, and pitched in
to help. Nice video.

I did something similar to this, earlier this year.
Helped with some flood damage, closer to home.
Great team spirit, much like you see in the video.
The home owners were very nice, and very
grateful.


Interesting, the fellow from The Mormon Church group gave props to
Muslim and Catholic volunteers who were also out helping people but
I haven't noticed anything in the mainstream media about religious
organizations providing assistance except perhaps the wonderful folks
of The Salvation Army. O_o

TDD

I was a lot surprised that the guys were giving
yellow vests to Non-Mormons. I've also not
heard anything on the media.

Christopher A. Young
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"The Daring Dufas" wrote in message
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Interesting, the fellow from The Mormon Church group gave props to
Muslim and Catholic volunteers who were also out helping people but
I haven't noticed anything in the mainstream media about religious
organizations providing assistance except perhaps the wonderful folks
of The Salvation Army. O_o

TDD

Stormin:

While I'm sure that the LDS volunteers have the best of intentions, and that their efforts will be greatly appreciated by the folks in New York and New Jersey, if the lack of sufficient unskilled labour to effect the repairs were a problem, all of the local high schools would be letting the kids out to help out with the relief effort.

In some situations, such as getting sandbag dykes built before a flood crests, all that's really needed is plenty of unskilled labour.

In most situations, what's needed are people that have the specialized knowledge to assess the situation in each home and decide what needs to be done and how to do it. Since I expect most homeowners in the New York/New Jersey area didn't have insurance against overland flooding from a storm surge, they're going to be paying to have the damage to their homes repaired out of their own pockets. In that case, instead of simply tearing down plaster and putting up drywall, they might want to spend a bit more and use a relatively inexpensive but much more water resistant panel, such as Dens-Shield instead of drywall. That way, for a small difference in material costs, you can have a basement that's much more resistant to flooding. Alternatively, if insulation or wiring in those houses needed to be upgraded, they're going to want to know what kind of insulation or wiring is most practical to upgrade to in their particular situation. The people that are needed now are people that can look at each individual situation and advise the homeowners of what needs to go, what can stay and also be able to do the work correctly so that it doesn't cause a nightmare for the homeowners or building inspectors afterwards.

I applaud the LDS for wanting to help out their fellow Americans in the wake of this disaster, but if all that were needed were more strong backs to get the work done, the high schools and colleges in New York and New Jersey would already have that base covered.

The LDS volunteers will definitely help out, tho, if by doing nothing more than spending money in the affected area, and thereby helping to stimulate the local economy. I'm hoping it'll be more than that, but it wouldn't be taking the local utilities so long to restore gas and electrical power if the only problem was a shortage of manpower.

On 17 Nov 2012 00:15:50 GMT, PeterD wrote:

I'd like to know why big ****s such as Trump, don't shell out some money
and force the gas & electric companies to fix broken lines.

Why should Trump try to save the world? He has no legal or moral
obligation to give his money away.

On 11/16/12 6:15 PM, PeterD wrote:
I'd like to know why big ****s such as Trump, don't shell out some money
and force the gas & electric companies to fix broken lines.

Two ex-wives. Five offspring.

Considering that the companies make their money selling gas and electric.
It's to their advantage to hvae the lines up,and be sellling. Why would they
repair slowly? Makes no sense.

Christopher A. Young
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"PeterD" wrote in message
4...
I'd like to know why big ****s such as Trump, don't shell out some money
and force the gas & electric companies to fix broken lines.

On 11/16/2012 7:15 PM, PeterD wrote:
I'd like to know why big ****s such as Trump, don't shell out some money
and force the gas& electric companies to fix broken lines.


Over 90% of storm related power outages are caused by falling tree branches.

So the real question is, why do we plant trees under/near power lines?