nytemare
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Sun Aug-28-05 09:42 PM
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Send good vibes to the public service people in the storm's path. |
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The EMS, Fire, Police, hospital, and National Guard people have to put their lives and families on hold during an emergency for a long time to help folks out. While sitting in the heat with no air, or sitting in gas lines in the heat can really suck, these folks are out in it directing traffic, handing the ice out, stopping looters, and responding to medical emergencies. People can get pretty cranky after a hurricane, and that makes the job even more challenging.
Let's remember these folks, and keep them in our hearts.
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Sun Aug-28-05 09:52 PM
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1. They do heroic things every day |
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They run toward trouble, while the rest of us flee.
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nytemare
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Sun Aug-28-05 09:56 PM
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2. True. My heart goes out to them in the weeks ahead. |
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Those folks are going to be dog tired from work, hopefully they will have homes to rest their heads.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:01 PM
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3. Don't forget the UNPAID, NGO VOLUNTEERS |
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Red Cross Salvation Army St Vincent de Paul Southern Baptist Brotherhood (the big mass feeding kitchen semi's) Civil Air Patrol Coast Guard Auxiliary Community Emergency Response Teams Urban Search and Rescue Corps Ham Radio (Radio Amateur Civilian Emergency Service) Volunteer Fire Departments Volunteer Ambulance Corps
They don't get paid - they are doing it to serve their communities.
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nytemare
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:20 PM
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Thanks for mentioning them.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:11 PM
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4. thanks to all of you for reminding us of the brave people who risk their |
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lives and give of themselves in times of trouble.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:53 PM
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6. Docs, nurses, orderlies, hospital clerks, 911 dispatchers, |
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and so on.
Let me not forget librarians and library workers, as I am one, and weather like this is absolutely DEVASTATING to libraries and public archives (water damage and resulting mold risk--killer stuff).
To my friends at AMIGOS Library Services and the library and public archives workers of the Southeast --you've got your hands full already, no doubt, so--THANKS ahead of time. We are pulling for you.
And blessings, prayers, thoughts, karma, to EVERYONE affected by this.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:08 PM
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7. Remember the power company workers while you're at it. |
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They will be working their hinies off for weeks to come in the NO area.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:11 PM
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8. exactly right, they'll be thrown in the midst... |
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and deserve our admiration
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:53 PM
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9. I dispatched for a few years. |
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Public service is in my mind every time something like this happens. They never get enough credit for what they do-especially EMS and 9-1-1 dispatch(they both tend to be overlooked).
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Mon Aug-29-05 09:14 AM
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10. Shout out to your water department workers, too! They are going to be |
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overwhelmed, and it seems as though they are often an "expendable (as in too easily downsized) department in city government.
I'm a proud AFSCME supporter, although I'm inelegible for membership, and keeping my brothers and sisters in mind as they face this.
:patriot:
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