I am very blessed that they are coming to me
so all I have to do is do as I'm asked.
Yesterday I got a call from a church in Christchurch
asking for a delivery of drinking water.
We have water,
lots of good, clean drinking water
what we don't have are containers.
We need 2 x 1,000 litre containers
and a ute.
We have lots of utes,
but no food grade plastic containers.
There are also no plastic bottles
cause we have already given them to Christchurch filled with fresh mountain water
but the bottles don't come back so we can't refill them.
We pulled out every stop to try and get a container but none are to be had.
So not such a good deed but it was about three hours of sorting out
and about six cursing unhelpful people who have containers but won't share.
So there is a church with people who need drinking water but we can't get any to them.
I talked to the army and am hoping they can help.
On a better note, successes are;
I got a message on Sunday night from Selwyn District Council
asking if I could organise volunteers to be Welfare Officers
to go around with the Building Inspectors as they inspect the house,
cause that's what they do.
I posted on Facebook and by Monday morning I had 10 volunteers
and talked to Methven Heritage Centre manager Jackie.
She put the word out to Methvenites and Lions Clubs
and now we have 100 volunteers to do 8 hour shifts everyday until we are done.
They will be walking the streets checking on how people are doing.
Every house and family we can find needs to be checked on.
And streets hide.
When you have to clean every street you can find
and talk to as many people you can find,
it's surprising how streets full of people hide.
Today I got a call from one of our farmer volunteers who
was calling from a street that 6 days after the earthquake hadn't been checked,
or cleaned.
This street was full of newer homes and most of the residents were older.
There was one house that was solid and so most of the residents,
whose houses are damaged,
were sleeping in the one house.
They had no recent food or clean, drinking water
They had power and running water,
more like dribbling but that counts as running now
no sewerage and no one had checked on them.
They were almost in tears when our guys arrived to dig them out of the silt.
I got in contact with the best person and was able to get a Welfare Officer over to them.
A professional Welfare Officer not a volunteer one.
I need to be at the A&P Showgrounds at 6.30am tomorrow morning so I'm to bed.
I'll be sending more Young Farmers out to clean streets.
Poor sods are camping at the Showgrounds and we have a gale force wind warning.
Good thing they are farmers and can handle it.
They've already found the free beer.
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