bethb's Diaryland Diary

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how do you help when you feel so helpless?

i got out of work early today (when the cat's away, the mice go home) so i watched some gilmore, read the paper, and turned on the news in time to see people being loaded on a bus to go to the houston astrodome, but they couldn't take their dog of 9 years and the dog was pawing at the doors and even as i write this i'm bawling.
9 years.....
i couldn't stand it. i still can't stand it. everything about this hurricane is so unbelievably surreal. even moreso than previous tragic events (tm).
in the past i've donated some cash to the red cross, but does anyone know, or have an opionion, is it better to say, donate 75 dollars to the RC, or maybe 50 to the RC and 25 to another charity....or spread it around to 3 charities at 25?
i just don't know....i mean....the people...their dogs.....i wish i could drive down there and scoop up a family and help them get somewhere...
how do you help when you feel so helpless???

6:59 p.m. - 2005-09-01

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