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God's Pit Crew is a sort of help agency that deals with natural disasters and so forth, based (as far as I know) in some little town no one's heard of in Virginia. IE when Katrina happened a few years ago, they set up a big drive for people to donate things to the victims, and then took the stuff to them.
As you probably all know, a HUGE storm swept through a good part of the eastern US, leaving several million people (I think) without power.
During a heat wave.
Needless to say, we couldn't stay at the house. Al's mother is on oxygen and has a hard time breathing even WITH that, under normal circumstances--and we keep the house at 70-72!
So we went to stay at a famous Christian college's Baptist church which is humongous...so they let people stay there, even though they really weren't *supposed* to do that. They weren't going to throw people out. Meals were served and people slept in the gymnasium. Free wifi and endless amounts of soda+water+gatorade were also available.
They also let in people with pets and had food+litter for you to take as well. Albeit the people with pets were provided with a separate room--but that's expected. Some people brought in some BIG dogs.
We'd been there a few days until we found out about these Blessing Buckets--at first, everyone grabbed them erroneously. They were meant for some neighborhood that had been devastated and had nothing. A day later some were provided that were actually MEANT for us.
A Blessing Bucket can contain many things (a Bible, too, obviously). But generally they had things like:
So thanks, guys. We really don't know what we'd have done if not for either of you.
As you probably all know, a HUGE storm swept through a good part of the eastern US, leaving several million people (I think) without power.
During a heat wave.
Needless to say, we couldn't stay at the house. Al's mother is on oxygen and has a hard time breathing even WITH that, under normal circumstances--and we keep the house at 70-72!
So we went to stay at a famous Christian college's Baptist church which is humongous...so they let people stay there, even though they really weren't *supposed* to do that. They weren't going to throw people out. Meals were served and people slept in the gymnasium. Free wifi and endless amounts of soda+water+gatorade were also available.
They also let in people with pets and had food+litter for you to take as well. Albeit the people with pets were provided with a separate room--but that's expected. Some people brought in some BIG dogs.
We'd been there a few days until we found out about these Blessing Buckets--at first, everyone grabbed them erroneously. They were meant for some neighborhood that had been devastated and had nothing. A day later some were provided that were actually MEANT for us.
A Blessing Bucket can contain many things (a Bible, too, obviously). But generally they had things like:
- Toothbrushes
- Toothpaste
- Single rolls of toilet paper
- Shampoo
- Bottled Water
- 1-2 cans of food ("potted meat" or Beanee Weenees)
So thanks, guys. We really don't know what we'd have done if not for either of you.
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