Hurricane Irene Response Update – Response Information and Needs
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Craig Parker - Elizabeth City District Disaster Response Coordinator unloads cleaning buckets at Bethany UMC in Wanchese. The buckets were delivered by the NC Conference United Methodist Men. Most homes in Wanchese were flooded by Hurricane Irene. Photo by: Bill Norton
Updated: 9-29-2011 at 11:00 AM
Hurricane Irene Response
Click here for the latest update of activity and information of outreach scope.
We have an immediate need for Casework volunteers, please click here for more information.
The NC Conference has activated a disaster response call center in readiness for Hurricane Irene at the Methodist Building in Garner, NC. Volunteers are to help with our coordination efforts.
Anyone wanting to volunteer should email disasterresponse@nccumc.
We have an immediate need for FULLY assembled flood buckets. Please see Cleaning Buckets.
The mid/northeastern portion of the NC Conference has been significantly impacted by Irene and we continue to need volunteers. Due to the critical need and the level of response to date, volunteers, regardless of previous disaster experience or length of availability are needed and will be deployed as soon as possible as per the guidelines found here.
We ask that everyone apprise their local neighborhoods for damage and needed assistance. Please make that information available to your District Disaster Response Coordinator. You can find an up-to-date list of District Disaster Coordinators here. If you have such a team or would like to volunteer, please email disasterresponse@nccumc.org or call 888-440-9167.
For our NC districts and local churches, if you are willing to have your facility be used for work teams for this, or any, disaster, please fill out the Disaster Response Facilities Survey and send it to disasterresponse@nccumc.org .
Please also consider reaching out financially by giving to NC Storms Emergency Response – NC Advance #S-00176. 100% of every gift to this Advance will go to storm response. You can donate on-line at: NC Storms Response
You can also send funds to: NC Conference, P.O. Box 60053, Charlotte, NC 28260. Please be sure to note Advance #S-00176.
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