Re: Financial topics
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:50 pm
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[FWIW, I live 20mi south and 10mi west of the slide site and have local knowledge. Don't know any of the affected.]
will doSovietofWashington wrote:[FWIW, I live 20mi south and 10mi west of the slide site and have local knowledge. Don't know any of the affected.]
So they are A. Good folk out in the hills. Many of the Darrington folks (to the east of the slide) are ex-pat Tar Heels. Have a really good blue-grass festival in August.
So are these guys: http://vimeo.com/90773839
By Divine providence, the (mostly) volunteer County Sheriff's Helicopter Rescue Team was gathered for a Saturday practice session and was able to get in-the-air and be on scene with both their copters within one hour. They made 8 rescues, all but these two and the 4-year-old child badly injured. I think one of the rescued later passed, but to my knowledge everybody else is recovering. Some small comfort in the pain.
A lot of their funding was from a recently expired Federal timber tax, which has not been replaced. If anybody is looking for some donation that will really help save lives, try here: http://helicopterrescue.org/donate/