How to help
- To donate to Salvation Army relief efforts, go to salvationarmycarolinas.org, call (800)725-2769 or mail a check to Disaster Gift Processing Center, P.O. Box 1959, Atlanta, GA, 30301, designating it for Hurricane Irene. Text "Storm" to 80888 to make a $10 contribution.
- Another fund has been set up by the N.C. Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service, housed in the Office of the Governor, in partnership with United Way of North Carolina. All donations are tax-
deductible. Checks may be mailed to:
N.C. Disaster Relief Fund, 20312 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC, 27612. Credit card donations may be made at www.nc
disasterrelief.org.
A Salvation Army feeding unit is back from the North Carolina coast and was being readied Tuesday for its next mission.
Just where that will be, Lt. Robert Long does not know.
"We are always on standby," said Long, who with another Salvation Army member went to Morehead City to help out there with Hurricane Irene.
Long and Jeff Clarke, the other Salvation Army member who made the trip, got back Tuesday to find themselves in a rainstorm brought on by Tropical Storm Lee.
"We just got back and are ready to do our inventory and see what we have, what we used and what we need," Long said.
They had not received any notice that they might be needed to help out in the aftermath of Lee.
The Salvation Army's disaster services canteen was stationed at the South River Fire Department in Carteret County northeast of Morehead City. It was an area where many people were flooded and without drinking water because of well contamination.
The Salvation Army canteen left Winston-Salem on Aug. 26. While at South River, it served 2,800 meals and distributed 3,300 bottles of water, 800 snacks, 1,000 hygiene kits and 32 cleanup kits.
The hygiene kits contained toothbrushes, toothpaste and other personal care items. The cleanup kits provide supplies for people who need to clean their houses.
Long said there were 600 people in the community who needed help, in addition to firefighters and medical workers.
"Every house was flooded, and every home well was contaminated," Long said.
Although the canteen is back, the local Salvation Army's work down east is not through. Two more Salvation Army team members have gone to Salvo on the Outer Banks to relieve a team from Greensboro.
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