In 2007 I took a road trip west to Calgary, and on my way home I spent a couple nights in Montana. My second day had me driving west through Glacier National Park, then south through Butte to the town of Belgrade for night. Somewhere north of Butte, I took a quick detour to get...
The Red Cross offers assistance after disasters like the tornado in Butler, and almost all of that assistance is provided through volunteer caseworkers deployed into affected communities. Above you see photos from Deer Park, Alabama. The same storm system that produced tornadoes in Butler also devastated Deer Park in south Washington County. As an AmeriCorps...
I was in Denver, Colorado from April 12-15th for AmeriCorps Pre-Service Orientation (although I’d been in service at the Red Cross for over two months by then). Storms passed through Colorado and Oklahoma while I was in Denver, with a rush of wind fanning the flames of Texas wildfires the Friday I left to come...
At 5:10 AM on August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall on American soil near Buras, Louisiana, obliterating almost everything in its wake, from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama. Five years later we’re still recovering. You’ve probably been inundated with Katrina memorials, specials, and documentaries this past week. The media (and many regular...
