Positivity: Sending Housing to Hurricane Victims
In a longer LA Times article (requires registration) on offers of housing for evacuees, a great item–instead of bringing evacuees to housing (noble itself, of course), bring the housing to the evacuees:
… instead of bringing evacuees to her home, she (Shirleen Edgley) has decided to take housing directly to them.
Edgley owns the Sports Unlimited RV dealership in the small town of Alpena, in northern Michigan. Last week, she donated nine trailer homes off her lot to storm survivors. She filled them with food, water and toiletries — “no use sending them empty,” she explained — and rounded up volunteers to tow them 1,100 miles to the shattered Mississippi coast.
The conservative advocacy group American Family Assn., which is based in Tupelo, Miss., picked up the idea and put out a call for similar donations. Ten more mobile homes are on their way, with others to follow.
“It’s overwhelming,” said Dick Lankford, the group’s vice president of development. “I’ve always said this is the way God works, through ordinary people like us.”
