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ammoaddict said:
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Do either of yall know of a good place we can send some gift bags for kids? My wife and her coworkers are putting 15 - 20 bags together with blanket, stuffed animal, coloring books, crayons, markers etc.. maybe some candy too. We want to make sure that needy kids get them. We just need to know a good place to ship them. Thanks guys.
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We have a couple of groups looking to do some food on the weekends between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We thought about one of those weekends also doing some things for Christmas. Might be a thought to work along the Christmas theme with the gifts. There will be plenty of need for a while to come. I can find some people who can lead you in the right direction. I know people who know people.

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morewood said:
We have a couple of groups looking to do some food on the weekends between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We thought about one of those weekends also doing some things for Christmas. Might be a thought to work along the Christmas theme with the gifts. There will be plenty of need for a while to come. I can find some people who can lead you in the right direction. I know people who know people.

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Thanks. Any information is helpful. I know some places are overwhelmed with donations. We're looking for people that can get things out to folks that really need it. Please keep us informed on where the biggest needs are.
God bless you.
 
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No sawin today fellas
Wound up having 2 tics on me.....now takin an antibiotic- which made me sick to my stomach for a while
Good news is power company came by today ( a crew out of Chattanooga & Bristol Tennessee) and set my pole! I may have power by tomorrow!
Plus the crew has already started on the inside of my house!
Doing cabinets first I believe
I'll get some pics up when I can
And, I just have to say - God Bless You to all you whom have donated and continue to donate - its much much worse than you can imagine up here
Pics just do not do it justice
Thank you. Thank you so much
The people absolutely appreciate it & need it
I'm thinking it's gonna be years - if ever before things get back to the way that they used to be .
 
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MacLaren said:
No sawin today fellas
Wound up having 2 tics on me.....now takin an antibiotic- which made me sick to my stomach for a while
Good news is power company came by today ( a crew out of Chattanooga & Bristol Tennessee) and set my pole! I may have power by tomorrow!
Plus the crew has already started on the inside of my house!
Doing cabinets first I believe
I'll get some pics up when I can
And, I just have to say - God Bless You to all you whom have donated and continue to donate - its much much worse than you can imagine up here
Pics just do not do it justice
Thank you. Thank you so much
The people absolutely appreciate it & need it
I'm thinking it's gonna be years - if ever before things get back to the way that they used to be .
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What MacLaren said is really true. It's really unbelievable, even after I've seen so much. And many places have a lot of supplies now, but we are going to need support 6-12 months from now also. It's a long distance event for sure.
 
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OnlyStihl said:
Update? Recovery progressing?

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Sorry 4 the late reply & thank you for asking
Its been a helluva winter -
Let me back up - we were able to get back into our house on November 18th!!
Thank the Good Lord for those kind people that made us whole again!
But, there's such a very, very, very long way to go before things ever even start to look the same - the damge was just incredible- there's really no words to adequately describe what a damn mess it left us with
And, its been kne helluva cold winter - and when it wasn't super cold (-20° with windchill)
It was freakin rainin and a muddy damn mess
I just can't wait for springt to arrive
It looks like we may finally be able to get some gravel tomorrow- ain't that crazy - we live in The United States of America- the strongest greatest Country ever on the face of the earth and we can't get any gravel for our driveways - that's just despicable imo!
Please don't get me wrong, I'm so blessed and greatful for the many volunteers that have helped but, I would just hope that the govt could've sent the guard in with some damn gravel at the very least....ya know?
And, i don't want to complain about our govt any more than that - it's just too frustrating
I just can't help but think that they could have some gravel hauled in - our local quarry is only serving the state ( and most if not like 90% of hime up here live on private gravel roads - ain't nobody up here could ever afford a damned paved driveway lol
At any rate, I digress and please forgive me the rant
Its just gonna be an agonizing slow go
 
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