Six years ago on August 29th I sat in the same room I wrote this, listening to the wind howl outside. The wind here was strong. Across Mobile windows broke. Limbs fell. Trees uprooted. Homes flooded. Less than fifty miles west the unceasing tide rose, pushing inland without remorse. Nature has no remorse. It has...
Category Archives: Red Cross
As a Red Cross volunteer, you can be the best part of someone’s worst day.
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...
A couple months ago I was called out to a fire in Eight Mile, Alabama. As you can see, the house and all their possessions were a total loss. The man of the house was at home asleep when it happened, and his granddaughter, sick and home from preschool, woke him up when she smelled...