Rainbow help for Katrina-displaced folks

The reason I felt comfortable saying who it was, is because he called me and asked me to post to update people. I understand why you didn't feel it was appropriate though.

 

hey sister dont assume by my words on yer screen that i feel any emotions,,or intend to stir them in others just because ya interpret them the way ya do...

 

no interpretations made

 

well ya said i was bein bitchy,, but i see ya deleated that part,, no biggie...

luv n lite

 

I deleted it cause you said not to assume there was any emotion behind it, so I assumed there wasn't and took it back, that's all. I didn't want to start anything, the words seemed harsh to me, but if you say they're not then no worries. Blessings

 

peace luv n lite..

people misenterpret my words on there screen all the time.. its no biggie..

if im ever startin shit in this world it damn well wouldnt be in this forum...

 

hahaha, so true, last thing anything needs in life is internet drama, lol.

 

Wow.. this thing is massive, and we all have the natural essential knowledge, to do our part, in the heightening times.

 

No foul, molly. I have a hard time accessing this site, I guess because of all the heavy graphics. I have more luck getting email out. Sometimes the network is up at the same time all two or three generators needed it to run it is on. My list is Bcc, so that's why you don't see the string of eddys. Our partners, the Bastrop Christian Outreach Center, scored a 150 kW generator late last night, only took us 12 hours for us to figger out how to get it off the flatbed with forklifts rated for only 3500 pounds, while fighting off the Powers that wanted to requisition it from us. It should be up and running by Tuesday morning at the latest, so that will fix the power problem! Of course, so would running a temporary box off the main power lines, since I'm told they're hot, but who would the power company bill for this service? And the military still amuses me by asking us hippies for stuff one would think they oughta have, like a compass to align a satelite antenna. One of our Methodist volunteers said of the Cafe "The Kingdom of Heaven must look a lot like this."



I think the only folks on the forums on my mass mail list are paix, hippieestesd, and hillbilly, and unless I specifically state otherwise in the email, PLEASE post them, and foreward them all over the place. You three can arm wrestle over who gets to be my proxy poster. Rumor has it that since we have that generator, City Hall will be moving into this parking lot, so the New Waveland Cafe is gonna be right on the town square. Can anyone out there donate a statue of a Confederate soldier?



Could someone merge this thread with the sticky, please?

 

ah no foul anywhere ,,, we areselves just will not post anything that we dont know can be posted for sure ,,,, other than some sorta mass mailing ... hhb just has the attention span of a gnat at tiems n initially he didnt see that you had spoke to turnup n he said to post it,,,, was really nothing more than a respect thing on hhb part til he realized he hadnt read the whole post,,,,,,, luv you all turnup,,,,

 

hhb says we are on the conf, soldier .... how long does he have?

 

Done,, as soon as shes back online..

luv n lite

 

I think it's wonderful that the family is ready and willing to respond to the peopel that are in need.It proves to me we are not only out for ourselves and that all our planning and learning how to live in the woods and on the road is not just for parting and having a good time.We can make a difference with love and a helping hand.I can't be there for this one but you can bet there will be more natral disasters to come because she's just as fedup as we all are.Who better adapt to with the aftermath of an act of nature than those who have dedicated themselves to her.

 

Don't get me wrong. I've had a couple of valuable laughs at some of the odd requests we've had from military personnel. But we're all on the same team, and some of our most valued regular customers are senior NCOs. Those folks would much rather eat stuffed peppers, in a casual social atmosphere, while sitting next to one of the folks that they're here to help, than eat something that comes out of a green plastic bag while sitting on the back of their truck. And a well-placed sergeant or petty officer has the ability to really return a favor.



Dang Fundamentalist Rainbows! Some of our folks want to sort recyclables, and stash them until someplace can be found that will take them away. Aluminum is at $0.41/lb in Gulfport, but no place around here wants cardboard, plastic, or #10 cans (the biggest parts of the pile). An entire city has been trashed here. If we had a hundred hippies with nothing to do but sort recyclables for 12 hours a day in the heat and humidity, they wouldn't be able to make a dent in it. Reality check!


Back to work. More later.

 

hold your positions! and keep a weather eye on tropical storm rita. We might have to bug out in a couple-three days if that thing turns north, or go feed Houston, or something. HB, that should kind of answer your question you pmed me about, but I'll try to get you an address for wherever we're gonna be

 

we're on stand-by for Rita, Turnup. the hippiestead is about 100 miles from Houston; we can do weekends if this is as bad as they're saying. Bastrop Co is where we live, Lee Co. side; volunteered packing those bedrolls for y'all; called the thrift store for pillows, they were out cuz of the folks who evacuted from Louisiana; didn't know that stuff was for Waveland.

HHB & Paix can handle the Hippyland posts if they want, we'll cover the MySpace Rainbow groups. Texas Rainbow chat group will have any news about Rita's damage as long as we have electric; predictions say we'll get 70 mph winds & lots of rain, even this far inland.

 

Getting to right place in tree...

 

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Ok, so you want to help? We were a week or more on the phone planning and networking before we made our move, and Prior Planning did prevent piss-poor performance, even though little of our plan survived once we landed. Now is the time to start planning our response to the impending disaster in Texas. Now is the time to ask your boss for a week off in a couple weeks so you can come here, or Texas, and help out. Now is the time to get on the phone, or on your computers, and start networking in your area to gather supplies and equipment. We have the infrastructure together now to move proactively (I've been going to too many damn meetings if I'm using words like "proactively") on some small, quiet coastal town that's about to be devastated. We won't know where exactly until after Rita makes landfall, but it will probably be someplace few folks have heard of before, and the Government and Media will ignore, the Waveland of Texas. Our partners from Bastrop are already laying down supply lines, and we've been in contact with Family from around Austin and San Antonio. Some crew will stay here, but the New Waveland Cafe can run on Auto-Pirate now if it has to, even if it might loose some of it's Rainbow ambiance, and if you're coming down I-10, we're on the way. We'll land a crew where it's needed as soon after the storm as the roads are drivable.



Things are getting downright civilized here. There's a wringer washing machine. I've gone from showering with bottled water, to using one of the public showers, to having a private shower for me and my Lady, and our immediate camp neighbors. Radio Waveland went on the air today, a low wattage public access station, and I spent most of the day on the 'net looking up stories of local interest for the news. Lt Moore seems so have a lot of the kinks worked out of our wireless network. Go Navy! But we also made contact with a Rainbow Sister who has been running a small kitchen about 7 miles from here in a poor neighborhood, and she's still making contact with folks who are just making it out of their homes for the first time since the storm. The conditions she described there are horrible. We're able to send her all the food she'll need, but there's still a shortage of family sized tents, like cabin tents, and propane stoves, and ice chests, and batteries. 12-volt fans! Especially the kind that run off D cells, but that some local handyman can re-wire to run off a car battery if needed. I could give away thousands of those here.



Arjay writes:

New Waveland Cafe Expands Rita Threatens Texas Coast REMA Activates the Rainbow Emergency Network FOR WIDE DISTRIBUTION Contact: Arjay Sutton newwavelandcafe@yahoo.com Blog www.newwavelandcafe.blogspot.com Cell (828) 280-6338 Donations: http://tinyurl.com/cqdky While the New Waveland Cafe moves into spacious new quarters, the Rainbow Emergency Management Assembly (REMA) continues to monitor the progress of Hurricane Rita as it races across all that 90 degree water in the Gulf of Mexico on a collision course with the densely populated Texas Gulf Coast. We're now working in conjunction with ACT, a Seventh Day Adventist disaster response group, BCOC, as well as all local authorities who tell us the New Waveland Cafe is the largest feeding kitchen on the Mississippi coast. Accordingly, they have provided multiple large shelters, supplies, equipment, National Guard engineering troops for design and construction projects. The expanded New Waveland Cafe should be able to accommodate 5000 people comfortably at each meal. Some people travel 50 miles just to get our home cookin' and to visit our friendly clinic that is open and staffed 24/7. Meanwhile, we're closely monitoring the progress of Hurricane Rita in anticipation of landing another emergency relief kitchen on another devastated area in Texas as soon as the weather permits. Our Rita response will be a consuming topic of discussion at tonight's 8pm meeting. After our 8pm meeting, we will discuss possible joint operations with the folks we've been working with here, Bastrop Community Outreach Center (BCOC). These folks have families in the path of Rita because they are from Texas. We've had the opportunity to work closely with them for the past week and a half and they are Family whether they know it or not. I will disseminate the contents of these meetings later. I think we need to be realistic about this one, folks. Assuming the 90 degree Gulf waters and favorable winds don't slow down Rita, this storm could be even worse than Katrina and will affect a far more densely populated area. Jim Gray, the meteorologist whose forecasts on hurricanes have been the most accurate over the years, said today that he's only seen one storm that looked worse than Rita: Katrina. I'm on the ground here and can make the following observations and predictions based on our experience. 1. The federal government will put on a show but will provide very little of value. Brownie may be gone, but the upper echelons of emergency management are populated with incompetent cronies who appear to be more concerned with PR and their own comfort than the people they allegedly serve. What resources and competent line officers they do possess (most of FEMA) are thinly stretched over the vast wasteland left by Katrina and bureaucratic mismanagement. I can see the spin machine warming up now. 2. The Military and National Guard response will be inadequate. Over half of the Texas National Guard is in either Iraq or MS/LA. Bush trumpeted the great feat of sending 5000 Guard Troops to Texas. To do what? Secure Houston's shopping district? Multiply that number by ten and we're getting more realistic. As a side note, the military and National Guard deployed here in Waveland have been helpful, hard-working, and qualified for the jobs they are doing (which is what they signed up for). However, they are too few. BTW, about 50 of them are regulars at the New Waveland Cafe. 3. Texas Gov. Rick "Goodhair" Perry will prove to be the most incompetent public servant in history, eclipsing Brownie as government boob of the year. The State of Texas is completely bankrupt due to insane fiscal policy since 1994 (stealing from the government and giving to Enron). Count on very little from the state except for well disciplined professional law enforcement officers who will rise above the chaos above them. And spin. 4. The Red Cross, Salvation Army, and the usual relief groups had to fill so many gaps usually filled by the federal government during emergencies, they are deployed in numbers that defy their capabilities. They are already stretched far too thin and will only be able to mount a minimal response that will detract from ongoing and extremely necessary operations responding to Katrina. As a sidebar, the Red Cross is attempting to break through its own red tape and deploy the wave of volunteers who showed up in the wake of Katrina, attended disaster training, and awaited assignment. If you intend to take the Red Cross route, go get your disaster training now. Deployment often takes a long time. That leaves the folks who have responded so generously to Katrina: all the churches, civic organizations, and our own little anomoly, REMA. It started out as a joke sign I hung on my bus. Now it looks like something able to raise a coordinated quick response from our base of operations here in the central Gulf Coast at the New Waveland Cafe. One thing we showed ourselves and other disaster responders: we're really good at landing quickly and getting aid to folks who need it. We take our experiences from Katrina with us as we consider expanding into another theatre. Stay tuned for updates. As I wrote before, we are monitoring Rita and preparing a potential response based on need and resources at hand. Be prepared to be drafted into REMA. We may need you, whatever equipment you have in your garage or barn, your expertise, and most of all, your prayers. Because we may be all the stands between life and death for the millions about to be impacted by Rita on one side and a criminally inadequate government response on the other. Let's all pray for a cold wind to blow out of the north and blow Rita apart. Much Love Arjay ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This message was brought to you by Pronoid Central (c). STILL absolutely, positively convinced that you are out to help us.