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Here's a few shots of Staten Island yesterday, When I dropped off quilts at a shelter and quilts on the Acacia Mobile Medical Unit(*below) When people come in for treatment, they get a quilt...
I have more pics, but haven't gotten them loaded yet...
Video link to yesterday on youtube...
Water had rose as high as the black awning on the restaurant below... Now it sits empty, and outside is all the relief supplies from other agencies...in the street.
Yellow Stickers mean it was inspected, and work has to be done befor eit can be lived in again...
My god../the sheer misery of it is overwhelming...xo
ReplyDeleteI wish we could get your Boo and my Elsa together! I bet they would have fun. How old is she? Elsa is learning to sew...
ReplyDeleteWow. Your photos are really striking. Thanks so much for giving us a way to help. Hope Beatrice feels better soon!
ReplyDeleteWow. Those photos. The devastation. This is the stuff the media isn't showing the rest of the world! I'm glad you are. And delivering quilts.
ReplyDeleteHope Boo is feeling better and can get to her party!
You and Boo are both doing good...and I do mean GOOD!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat misery or all of those people. Thank you for your charitable work.
ReplyDeleteWow - it is such a wreck. I can't even imagine dealing with all of that. Thank you for the work you are doing to help out.
ReplyDeleteBoo is concentrating so hard! With your guidance she will have a real head start on becoming proficient with a sewing machine and an iron!
Oh, your Boo is gonna be just like you!! A lovely, generous soul!!! She is working so hard on that gift for her friend. Love it! Don't love the pics of the damage but it's so good that so many are helping. I remember what it was like to come back to our apartment in Biloxi, MS after Hurricane Camille in 1969. Stuff was all over the place after 5-1/2 feet of water rushed through our place. Being young and poor (husband was in the military at Keesler AFB) we salvaged almost everything by heading to a laundromat over in Mobile, AL to wash our clothes, then took a hose and lots of soap and water to our furniture. We found an apartment above a hardware store and moved in with our salvaged goods. We did such a good job of salvaging that when we left Biloxi, someone paid us $75 for the furniture. LOL! My friend, Monica, is on her way to New Jersey with quilts and other goodies for victims of the storm. She got some of those space bags to pack stuff in so she is fully loaded and ready to work! I watched the clip of you in the medical unit. What a great way to distribute the quilts! Keep up the good work.........but get some rest, too!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the photos. It's important to keep this disaster front and center in people's minds so that they remember to help as the holiday season begins to distract. So heartbreaking for so many.
ReplyDeleteBoo certainly is concentrating on her work. Thank you for sharing her fun. It's a joy to see.
Boo is good with her sewing! Look at her go! Love it!
ReplyDeleteLove it...tell Ms. B that they say 10,000 hours makes you an expert at something...and at the rate she is going...she will be expert at ALL Fiber arts in a few years...shisheko, embroidery, quilting, sewing, making...etc...love it..tell her looks Smashing...
ReplyDeleteGreat work V! Somehow seeing photos taken by someone you know makes a bigger impact than just seeing them on TV.
ReplyDeleteHope B feels better today...she is doing a great job on that pillow!
You Rock! I've close to getting a second one finshed, that would make 3, my LQS is working on one and my friend is looking through her home for quilts to donate. Tragic photos of S.I.
ReplyDeleteI always love to see pictures of Boo sewing and hopefully she will find happiness in sewing all her life.
ReplyDeleteLove seeing Boo going after those blocks with the Mistyfuse and the machine. The fruit fell close.
ReplyDeleteThe images of the aftermath are simply horrifying.
book arrived yesterday, details here...
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fabulously inspiring!