Operation Blessing International - HQ [supply depots]

Hurricane Helene:

Operation Blessing: This group works with emergency management and local churches to bring clean water, food, medicine and more supplies to people with immediate needs in disaster areas. Donate to their Helene fund on their website.

source: https://eu.statesman.com/story/weather/hurricane/2024/09/27/hurricane-helene-how-help-victims-relief-organizations-charities/75412916007/

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HURRICANE SANDY: OPERATION BLESSING PREPARES
DOMESTIC DISASTER RELIEF TEAM IN VIRGINIA

Group Will Pre-Stage In Virginia Beach In Case Local Effort
Needed, With Eye To The North

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (October 26, 2012) – The domestic disaster
relief team of Operation

Blessing International (OBI) is preparing for relief efforts
as Hurricane Sandy sets its course on the East Coast.

The team is pre-staging equipment, staff and supplies at
its Virginia Beach headquarters in case relief efforts are
needed in the Hampton Roads area, with the possibility of a
deployment in the north should that be needed. The equipment
includes:

--Mobile Kitchen - Capacity to feed approx. 2,000 meals per
day with enough provisions on board for 6,000 meals before new
supplies are needed
--Mobile Command Center with communication technology such as
VHF radio, satellite,
satellite news feed, and a base of operations for the team
--2 Construction Trailers with tools and safety equipment to
equip our construction foremen and volunteers with the tools
needed for debris removal, tarping roofs, flood clean-up and
gutting homes
--Box Truck with 100 cots, tarps and firing strips for 50 homes,
water, MREs, and kerosene
heaters
--CAT 924 Loader for debris removal
--100 heaters in the event that cold weather comes in during
power outages
--OBI’s fleet of Semi-Trailer Trucks (75 trailers and 18 power
units) from its Hunger Strike force are also standing by and will
be utilized as needed
--Shower Trailer for volunteers

The team, under the direction of Jody Herrington-Gettys, director
of U.S. disaster relief, will monitor the storm over the weekend
and decide on Sunday where to deploy based on the projected
track of the storm. “Our first priority is to serve the Hampton
Roads community,” said Herrington-Gettys.

Should deployment be needed further north, however, OBI has
already planned with partner organizations in NY, NJ and
Rhode Island.

Operation Blessing’s Haiti office is currently responding to
massive flooding in that country after then-Tropical Storm Sandy
dumped upwards of 12 inches of rain. Today, OBI will deliver
food, water filtration units, chlorine, and toiletries to 55
families that lost their homes due to severe flooding along
the river Grise near Croix de Mission, Haiti.

For more information, please log on to www.ob.org.