Red Cross Responds to Kaua‘i Flooding

[Obie]

The American Red Cross has a history with my family !

My Grandmother was president of the Red Cross in Steubenville Ohio in the 1950's and 1960's.

She donated her time and her money .

[MarkD]

RWR, Member Since: 09/26/2017 "14 Years and look what its become. A sea of negativity. "

A Punatalk reader for 13 1/2 years who is so disturbed at the decline of Punatalk to "sea of negativity" he can't take it anymore.

He joins to inform us of that fact (as he sees it).

[TomK]

MarkD - ignore RWR. His other sockpuppets have been banned from PW and given history, will not be surprised if it happens again. It's always the same argument and silly comments. It's not worth your effort to worry about it.

[MarkD]

Thanks, Tom. What was his handle before?

[TomK]

Pog and airportparking.

[randomq]

Let's take a moment to think about and thank all the community associations, local organizations, and neighbors that are helping people out on Kaua'i. From our own experience here in Puna, we know how much local residents help each other in a crisis. They are there first, even before the "first responders", checking on neighbors and chainsawing trees. Families taking in and feeding other families. Retired nurses treating wounds. They don't have a famous logo, they don't have a board of directors payed 6 figure salaries, they don't get any money at all. They are just good people helping their neighbors before, during, and after the crisis.

[Kapoho Joe]

I seem to recall the Red Cross setting up shop by the pool during the Iselle blackout. They handed out water, flashlights, batteries, blankets and gloves.

[Obie]

"The president and CEO of the American Red Cross is Gail McGovern, and her base salary has remained $500,000—without any pay increase—since she joined the American Red Cross in 2008. This is considered well within the range for executives of large non-profits like the Red Cross, a $3.3 billion organization.

The American Red Cross meets all standards of the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance. One of the BBB's standards for accountability is that a charity should spend at least 65 percent of total expenses on program activities. The American Red Cross vastly outperforms on this measure, spending an average of 91 percent of every dollar on humanitarian services."

[Eric1600]

Giving to the Red Cross is probably better than getting extorted.

“The boat operators would pull up on the shore and invite people onto the boat, with the idea they would carry them over to by where the St. Regis Hotel is, to get them to a place of safety,” said Kauai Prosecuting Attorney Justin Kollar.

But heroes, the operators were not; Kollar says they would then stop their vessels about two hundreds yards off shore and demand payment to go any farther. Big Island resident Liana Leaulii, who was hiking along the Kalalau Trail when the severe weather began, says it's exactly what happened to her.

"Once we were out in the middle of the ocean, they were like, ‘Did so-and-so on the beach tell you it was $200 a head on the boat?’“ said Leaulii.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37991...ng-rescues