Hurricane Sandy – Red Cross Day 5
Happy Thanksgiving! I posted a picture here of my Thanksgiving dinner. Missing my mom’s cooking! :-). Happy Thanksgiving to my family and friends. I can honestly say I have received more thanks-yous and smiles in the past few days than I have in my lifetime. The hard work is being done by the people impacted by disaster yet daily they continue to express how grateful they are.
People have asked what a typical day here is for me. That’s an oxymoron. No 2 days are the same. Today- up at 4:45. Meet co-volunteer and taxi to h’qtrs. Morning briefing. 25ish volunteers board bus for our specific bulk dist site at 6:30. Small team meeting in back of bus for the 90 min trip. Arrive at the “yard”, assign teams to trucks, load trucks, assign routes, gas trucks, scour the neighborhoods, empty trucks, make people happy, report inventory, support other teams in field, get back to yard, site manager feedback, 90 min bus ride back doing paperwork and evals, back home by 6:30. Eat, write, call family, post here, shower, sleep. Tonight I’m gonna go write a song for my team….
