3rd Gen Guys -- Easy Way To Help Donate!

[67guzzler]

To fellow 3rd Gen Owners:



I'm guessing this will get moved to the new Katrina section but before it does I wanted to appeal to the guys here like me with newer trucks who have been blessed with the financial ability to experience the joy and pleasure a nice new shiny truck can provide.



The American Red Cross has set up a direct site to make credit card donations:

American Red Cross Hurricane 2005 Relief​

Please note you will be given the opportunity to declare how your gift should be used. Select "2005 Hurricane Relief" if you wish to assist those affected by Hurricane Katrina.



100% of the funds collected go to the American Red Cross. This site is SSL secure and you can use your credit card and make a donation online. It will take 5 minutes and you'll even get a receipt you can print for your taxes.



I just wanted to let you all know about this easy way to help that will ensure that goods and services get to those who need it the most by those who can deliver it the best.



With a heavy heart, thinking about the poor souls laying on concrete, being stuck up in hot attics, wading through nasty water, while watching parents, grand parents and elderly suffer and in some cases die, trucks don't seem very important right now. These visions haunt me as I type this... .



God bless you all.

 

[GFritsch]

I just gave the money I was going to use for a TST box. Right now new truck parts seem insignificant. Our company is mathing funds. Hopefully other companies are doing the same.



I could be wrong, but it sure seemed like there was a much bigger effort to help the Tsunami victims.



You are right those of us more fortunate should step up and give until it hurts.

 

[67guzzler]

God Bless You, Greg.



Different people have different things to give. Some people just have themselves and don't have the funds so they give of themselves physically. Others don't have it in them to be "hands on" in tragedies like this (like me) and that's ok too because we're all different and if we look within ourselves we all can give in our own way. To me it's most important to do something, anything, even if it's merely to inspire others to do good & to help those in dire need like this. Hopefully I'm able to give a little AND inspire a little.



Thankfully, like yours, my company has a liberal matching policy too so I felt 2x good when I donated.



Thanks Greg and everyone who is helping in their own personal way... God Bless You All!

 

[testraub]

Donated and wish I could help more... . How about a CTD drive thru with relief supplies? I'd jump on that as long as I knew I could get fuel to truck it in/out and not get guoghed in fuel. Heck I'd even throw in some MRE's for relief or the CTD drivers. I've already put $500. 00 to the relief effert. May be a case of too little, too late.

 

[67guzzler]

I've already put $500. 00 to the relief effert. May be a case of too little, too late.

That's incredibly generous. It's 100% absolutely NOT too little too late for those who survive OR are saved and are comforted / assisted by the agencies you contributed to and supported. Don't you dare think about your generosity being in vain. No way!

 

[PUMPERDUDE]

Thank you very much

 

[testraub]

Added $200 to Habitat for Humanity and $200 to the Humane Society. It still seems too little for the scope of the problem FEMA dropped the ball BIG time.