[meteorite-list] Greensburg Relief Effort
Hello Everyone, As Mark said in another email, a few of us are putting together a relief effort for the residents of Greensburg, Kansas. Our intent right now is to get some funds down there quickly. In the next day or so we will finalize the details and let you know about a fundraising raffle we are planning. It will be similar to the one Geoff did for Katrina. Those of you who donate funds prior to us working out the details will be included in the raffle. I am accepting donations through my PayPal account at [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. For those of you who prefer not to use PayPal, you can send donations to me directly: Maria Haas, 410 Spring Street, Saline, MI 48176. Also, please take a look at your collections and see what you could donate to help someone from a true meteorite community devastated by a tornado. It will become part of the raffle. Questions, concerns, comments, inspirations? Please feel free to email me. More details soon. Thank you, Maria -- An update from Steve follows: Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 8:47 PM Hello All, It has been a strange day. I have been scouring the internet to try to get a glimpse of my house in Greensburg in pictures and aerial videos. Not to sound selfish, but if my house is gone, there would be less of a need for me to get up there right away... or then again, their might be more of a reason to get up there. My hope has been that since I haven't seen it in any of the really bad pictures, that is a good sign, as the media likes to show off the worst of things. If my house is intact, enough that people could live in it, there is no need for me to be in the house long term, when someone else could occupy it, someone that totally lost their home, or someone involved directly in the relief effort. If anyone cares, my home (or at least the lot) is at 302 S. Maple, Greensburg Kansas 67054. Go to: www.mapquest.comhttp://www.mapquest.com/ and you will see the street lay out of Greensburg. Then go here: http://www.kansas.com/static/video/050507greensburg/http://www.kansas.com/static/video/050507greensburg/ Watch the video, and at the 46 second mark, the street corner nearest the bottom right corner of the frame is Cedar and Wisconsin. My house is one block to the East (right) from that corner, on the south east corner (Maple and Wisconsin). The camera breaks, without panning any further East. My house should be less than a 1/2 block off the screen. The houses start to look better and there are even green leaves on the trees a block from my house. So there is a bit of optimism that my house might be ok. I have some very nice neighbors all around me, one in a mobile home, which is always of greater concern during tornados. As for the fundraiser, I want to support it, 100%, but before I commit to doing anything specific with my time and efforts, I would like to get up there and see what is going on and find out if I can help on site. If someone else could handle the coordination of running the fundraiser and let me make inputs and suggestions, that would be best for now. My suggestions at this point as to how we could help, lean in two directions. First, Barclay College hosted the Meteorite Festival, and now they are the Rescue Shelter for most of Greensburg's families. Of course much of the supplies and volunteers that will help there will be supplied by other people and groups such as the Red Cross. Barclay College is a religious institution, and as such some people might be more inclined to want to route funds that way as they are an on site not-for-profit that - trust me - is giving 100% to this effort. On the other hand, some people might not want to route funds through them because they are religious in nature. In any case, that is one suggestion I would highly make as they would know exactly where to put the funds to the best use. The other might be a little more close to home with some of us. I don't know the situation that Bob and Florence Peck are in, as they are not yet listed on the Red Cross's Safe list. (There is no list of deceased or injured people made public, go figure!). The Peck's live on the north side of Greensburg, as Steve Schoner mentioned, on 308 E. Pennsylvania, and by the video, odds are very good their home took a direct hit. Bob Peck is the son of Ellis Peck, the author of Space Rocks and Buffalo Grass and when he was 18 years old, the job of actually digging the famous 1,000 pound Brenham out of the hole for H.O. Stockewell fell on Bob personally. We (Brenham Meteorite Company) have a lease with Bob and Florence to hunt 160 acres they own in the Brenham Strewnfield (about 100 feet north of where the 1,430 pounder was found). And unfortunately, with the first complete pass over their ground, I was not able to locate any meteorites on their ground. So they have not
Re: [meteorite-list] Greensburg Relief Effort
Hi Maria and list, it would be great if the list members could collect and donate some money to help the residents of Greensburg. I would offer some slice of new Nevada meteorites for the auction and a cash donation. We could have Steve and Mark place the money as needed to the residents of Greensburg. Thanks, Sonny -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sun, 6 May 2007 1:07 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Greensburg Relief Effort Hello Everyone, As Mark said in another email, a few of us are putting together a relief effort for the residents of Greensburg, Kansas. Our intent right now is to get some funds down there quickly. In the next day or so we will finalize the details and let you know about a fundraising raffle we are planning. It will be similar to the one Geoff did for Katrina. Those of you who donate funds prior to us working out the details will be included in the raffle. I am accepting donations through my PayPal account at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For those of you who prefer not to use PayPal, you can send donations to me directly: Maria Haas, 410 Spring Street, Saline, MI 48176. Also, please take a look at your collections and see what you could donate to help someone from a true meteorite community devastated by a tornado. It will become part of the raffle. Questions, concerns, comments, inspirations? Please feel free to email me. More details soon. Thank you, Maria -- An update from Steve follows: Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 8:47 PM Hello All, It has been a strange day. I have been scouring the internet to try to get a glimpse of my house in Greensburg in pictures and aerial videos. Not to sound selfish, but if my house is gone, there would be less of a need for me to get up there right away... or then again, their might be more of a reason to get up there. My hope has been that since I haven't seen it in any of the really bad pictures, that is a good sign, as the media likes to show off the worst of things. If my house is intact, enough that people could live in it, there is no need for me to be in the house long term, when someone else could occupy it, someone that totally lost their home, or someone involved directly in the relief effort. If anyone cares, my home (or at least the lot) is at 302 S. Maple, Greensburg Kansas 67054. Go to: www.mapquest.com and you will see the street lay out of Greensburg. Then go here: http://www.kansas.com/static/video/050507greensburg/ Watch the video, and at the 46 second mark, the street corner nearest the bottom right corner of the frame is Cedar and Wisconsin. My house is one block to the East (right) from that corner, on the south east corner (Maple and Wisconsin). The camera breaks, without panning any further East. My house should be less than a 1/2 block off the screen. The houses start to look better and there are even green leaves on the trees a block from my house. So there is a bit of optimism that my house might be ok. I have some very nice neighbors all around me, one in a mobile home, which is always of greater concern during tornados. As for the fundraiser, I want to support it, 100%, but before I commit to doing anything specific with my time and efforts, I would like to get up there and see what is going on and find out if I can help on site. If someone else could handle the coordination of running the fundraiser and let me make inputs and suggestions, that would be best for now. My suggestions at this point as to how we could help, lean in two directions. First, Barclay College hosted the Meteorite Festival, and now they are the Rescue Shelter for most of Greensburg's families. Of course much of the supplies and volunteers that will help there will be supplied by other people and groups such as the Red Cross. Barclay College is a religious institution, and as such some people might be more inclined to want to route funds that way as they are an on site not-for-profit that - trust me - is giving 100% to this effort. On the other hand, some people might not want to route funds through them because they are religious in nature. In any case, that is one suggestion I would highly make as they would know exactly where to put the funds to the best use. The other might be a little more close to home with some of us. I don't know the situation that Bob and Florence Peck are in, as they are not yet listed on the Red Cross's Safe list. (There is no list of deceased or injured people made public, go figure!). The Peck's live on the north side of Greensburg, as Steve Schoner mentioned, on 308 E. Pennsylvania, and by the video, odds are very good their home took a direct hit. Bob Peck is the son of Ellis Peck, the author of Space Rocks and Buffalo Grass and when he was 18 years old, the job of actually digging the famous 1,000 pound
Re: [meteorite-list] Greensburg Relief Effort
Hello all, Rescue workers are back at the scene today. The weather still does not look good, but we are no longer in full time weather coverage. More heavy thunderstorms on the way in the Greensburg region, and other portions of Kansas, which makes flooding a big threat at the moment. Mal Bishop asked My question is; how should I ask people to donate, or where to send donations? Could someone set up a special PayPal account to collect funds for the relief, or should we just send donations to one of the list members such as Maria, Mark, Steve, Geoff, or someone else? Interesting choice of names. The four of us, and others have been bouncing e-mails. Maria Haas noted: Our intent right now is to get some funds down there quickly. In the next day or so we will finalize the details and let you know about a fundraising raffle we are planning. It will be similar to the one Geoff did for Katrina. Those of you who donate funds prior to us working out the details will be included in the raffle. I am accepting donations through my PayPal account at dragonsoup at msn.commailto:dragonsoup at msn.com. For those of you who prefer not to use PayPal, you can send donations to me directly: Maria Haas, 410 Spring Street, Saline, MI 48176. So, we are going to have a Meteorite Community Greensburg Raffle. I will be launching a web page shortly. Donations can besent to Maria, who will later send out the items to the Raffle winners. Sonny added I would offer some slice of new Nevada meteorites for the auction and a cash donation. We could have Steve and Mark place the money as needed to the residents of Greensburg. I am not sure if Steve will make into Kansas within the next few days or so. I can, of course, make my way over. Currently the place is I believe somewhat locked up, and it was a ghost town yesterday except for resue workers. A curfew was inforced until 9 or 10 this morning. Anyway, I would like to thank everyone for their help with this, especially our charity expects, Maria Hass and Geoff Notkin. As well as Sonny for helping spur us together. Stay tuned for more updates Mark Bostick Wichita, Kansas __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
