HELP!!! My AROWANAS need rescued...

[meiling]

After the river crests in Aberdeen, and as electricity and so forth are restored, could any of you MFK member's in Grays Harbor County please share updates.

This is the closest I can come to communicating with my hometown and family, once again, The MFK website has been an incredible resource with incredibly wonderful people helping each other. To Neo, the mods and members worldwide, thank you for making this possible.

Best wishes to all of you in the area, I hope you all pull through-

Thanks -Mei

 

[DeLgAdO]

How can so many people and animals be suffering, freezing, dying, homeless, helpless, suicidal, hungry, and there's NO one, no help, no shelters, no aid?
Makes me question the entire Dept. Emergency Services. Makes me question humanity. This country really needs to get some priorities figured out. What I have seen in the last 24 hrs will impact me for a lifetime, my home there is demolished. The material things do not matter, they need help so badly there, I feel so small and helpless.

Peace and love to all-a very humbled Mei Ling

theres only so much they can do mei, even they themselves may have come up short on people and resources.

those kinds of jobs are very stressful, i had a coworker who recently left her job as a EMT, she told me she saw horrible things, and the people she tried to help in agony and wanting to die because of the pain, it was so bad that she started becoming negative as a person, it was even affecting her relationship with her BF. so she left it after afew months and she resumed her normal life. now she's gonig to beauty school. My point is that its difficult to find people with the guts to fill in those jobs. not to mention the resources to get for everyone.

 

[meiling]

theres only so much they can do mei, even they themselves may have come up short on people and resources.

those kinds of jobs are very stressful, i had a coworker who recently left her job as a EMT, she told me she saw horrible things, and the people she tried to help in agony and wanting to die because of the pain, it was so bad that she started becoming negative as a person, it was even affecting her relationship with her BF. so she left it after afew months and she resumed her normal life. now she's gonig to beauty school. My point is that its difficult to find people with the guts to fill in those jobs. not to mention the resources to get for everyone.

I know, you're 100% right. The real stinger is I was a 911 dispatch supervisor in that very county for several years. I spent 6 mos writing the policy and procedure manual and working with improving responses and incident command for these very emergencies. I was assigned to liason with the Dept. of Emerg. Management. That was a few years ago, The flooding always happens there, never before this bad, with history repeating itself it saddens me that no true progress appears to have been made. The best laid plans of mice and men.

I too was an EMT, I hear you, for once I am on the other end. It's hard to be on the helpless end, a feeling i'm not used to!

I meant no disrespect to any Emergency Service Personnel, law, fire,aid, all of it. I commend and appreciate everything they do. There simply are not enough resources. Just seeing my parents lke that, and so much tragic damage to the entire area devastated me. I saw that thread today, after driving for so long, I'm tired and emotional.

Just knowing the people I love the most are in such a bad situation hurts.


I was aware of the need of those fish to be rescued 2 weeks ago, but had just been in the hospital so I was too sick to go.

I'm grateful that somehow the ocean parted at two perfect times to allow us to get through with emerg. supplies, so I'll think positive. Thanks for the pick me up. It really means a lot.


WHAT is UP with everyone losing their Aro's? Maybe we should have let them stay in their natural wild environment and not cage wild animals? heh, I feel that way, but if I had a tank setup and saw a baby Aro, it would come home with me! All I could say when the bf would glare is "OOPS! I did it again!!"

Thanks Del, thanks to you all, I feel better.

To new beginnings.......

 

[DeLgAdO]

I know, you're 100% right. The real stinger is I was a 911 dispatch supervisor in that very county for several years. I spent 6 mos writing the policy and procedure manual and working with improving responses and incident command for these very emergencies. I was assigned to liason with the Dept. of Emerg. Management. That was a few years ago, The flooding always happens there, never before this bad, with history repeating itself it saddens me that no true progress appears to have been made. The best laid plans of mice and men.

I too was an EMT, I hear you, for once I am on the other end. It's hard to be on the helpless end, a feeling i'm not used to!

I meant no disrespect to any Emergency Service Personnel, law, fire,aid, all of it. I commend and appreciate everything they do. There simply are not enough resources. Just seeing my parents lke that, and so much tragic damage to the entire area devastated me. I saw that thread today, after driving for so long, I'm tired and emotional.

Just knowing the people I love the most are in such a bad situation hurts.


I was aware of the need of those fish to be rescued 2 weeks ago, but had just been in the hospital so I was too sick to go.

I'm grateful that somehow the ocean parted at two perfect times to allow us to get through with emerg. supplies, so I'll think positive. Thanks for the pick me up. It really means a lot.


WHAT is UP with everyone losing their Aro's? Maybe we should have let them stay in their natural wild environment and not cage wild animals? heh, I feel that way, but if I had a tank setup and saw a baby Aro, it would come home with me! All I could say when the bf would glare is "OOPS! I did it again!!"

Thanks Del, thanks to you all, I feel better.

To new beginnings.......

i lost mine trying to save her

 

[Red Devil]

This is probably the saddest thread of i have ever read.. I am so sorry for your loss ... Zennzzno ..and for all the loss in this disaster.. and for you Mia it is more then i can amagine..

 

[Crustman]

So sorry that this happened. I don't think it is possible to prepare for a disaster of this magnitude. The only thing I can think of is a whole house generator that runs on natural gas.

 

[meiling]

So sorry that this happened. I don't think it is possible to prepare for a disaster of this magnitude. The only thing I can think of is a whole house generator that runs on natural gas.

I think you're right. There is only propane delivery in that area. The Governor just called Pres. Bush to have Grays Harbor County declared a Federal Disaster area, that will help eventually.

I know I have learned what I already knew, we all must have on hand EVERYTHING necessary to survive for a minimum of 3 weeks with no access, contact or help with the outside world, even if you live in the middle of a town.

Here it is, 24 hrs later and everyone is still just as bad off as they were last night when I was there, still cutoff from the outside world. I wouldn't have made it through tonight, floods again. sigh I still can't sleep

zennzzo-see your pm

 

[meiling]

i lost mine trying to save her

I heard, and missed out on offering my condolences, so I offer them now. No disrespect on your thread, it's likely going to spur many offshoots of conversation, we all can learn from this.

 

[killerlexus]

thats why you should always have battery operated air pumps on standby ,get them at @ wallymart in the fishing dept.

 

[bigspizz]

thats why you should always have battery operated air pumps on standby ,get them at @ wallymart in the fishing dept.

Air pumps?!?!?!!?What about the heat? There was a once a decade storm and major flooding. Go back and read the whole thread please.....Again sorry for your losses.