Our intrepid reporter Rick Browne is embedded with Operation BBQ Relief, which you support with 5% of your membership fees. He is not only reporting and taking pix, he is cooking and delivering. Here is his latest report. Pix to follow.
Spent early part of day with computer issues.
Photographed volunteers from State Farm helping OBR folks prepare meals, sliced 800+ lbs. of turkey breast, packed for 29,000 meals for dinner.
Some of OBR crew beginning to pack up, last day of meals served is Friday, then many of them headed to Florida for staging to prepare and deal with Irma. Most are exhausted already but will go if they are asked. Other OBR crews from around the country already heading for staging as well.
Then took part of a load of 500 meals in my rental car to the First Church of Pearland, where a bunch of volunteers broke the large pans of bbq turkey, barbecued chicken, and bbq beans into individual styrofoam clamshells in individual meal portions. Families kept coming in to ask for meals so they gave out 200 within 30 minutes.
Then helped pack a van and drove around the neighborhood of Friendswood neighborhood (very expensive, fancy large homes) to deliver meals to cleanup crews and homeowners who were at home (not very many, most have evacuated and can’t go back until homes are cleared by Health
dept. to remove all mold).
On certain streets almost every home had huge piles of debris on the curb, the walls, doors, furniture, carpet, flooring, major kitchen appliances, stereos, bookshelves, and etc. and etc.
Pics. of several folks who all thanked OBR profusely, and the Church, for thinking of them and caring enough to do this.
That’s all for now. Still can’t get the smell of mold out of my head.
Spent early part of day with computer issues.
Photographed volunteers from State Farm helping OBR folks prepare meals, sliced 800+ lbs. of turkey breast, packed for 29,000 meals for dinner.
Some of OBR crew beginning to pack up, last day of meals served is Friday, then many of them headed to Florida for staging to prepare and deal with Irma. Most are exhausted already but will go if they are asked. Other OBR crews from around the country already heading for staging as well.
Then took part of a load of 500 meals in my rental car to the First Church of Pearland, where a bunch of volunteers broke the large pans of bbq turkey, barbecued chicken, and bbq beans into individual styrofoam clamshells in individual meal portions. Families kept coming in to ask for meals so they gave out 200 within 30 minutes.
Then helped pack a van and drove around the neighborhood of Friendswood neighborhood (very expensive, fancy large homes) to deliver meals to cleanup crews and homeowners who were at home (not very many, most have evacuated and can’t go back until homes are cleared by Health
dept. to remove all mold).
On certain streets almost every home had huge piles of debris on the curb, the walls, doors, furniture, carpet, flooring, major kitchen appliances, stereos, bookshelves, and etc. and etc.
Pics. of several folks who all thanked OBR profusely, and the Church, for thinking of them and caring enough to do this.
That’s all for now. Still can’t get the smell of mold out of my head.
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