Full Notification

Another volunteer opportunity notice:

Thursday July 10. Where can you help and what do they need?

1. Camp Camp in Center Point, Texas (google to find their address and yes, the name is Camp Camp  thats not a type-o)

Skid steers with tracks. Too muddy for tires. 
Chainsaws and manpower to run them. 
Excavators
Roll-aways-bring them and we will dill them in 20 mins while you wait  we can fill rheaw all day long  
Folks with gloves to pull brush as it’s being cut and cleared. 
Carpenters with tools (electric saws and drills etc) to build lots of picnic tables and benches that were lost to the floods 
Chainsaw gas
Chainsaw oil
Socks!
Radio operators to sit at the top in the bottom of the hill to manage traffic
Camp Camp welcomes help from people that want to do some lighter work up top at the permanent campsite helping get ready for the campers that arrive this Sunday. Would help with things like cleaning cabins and bathrooms, cleaning the kitchen, maybe some light painting and touchup around the place as needed. these are not things that were damaged by the storm, but more the fact that staff has been distracted, dealing with their own personal loss while living in the area and at the same time needing to give attention to their facility to open for their campers on Sunday. I would consider these more of what I call a “honey-do list “ type of help.

2. Sandy creek in Leander (near austin) 

Skid steers with grapples 
Chainsaws and manpower to run them. 
Excavators
Folks with gloves to pull brush as it’s being cut and cleared. 
Chainsaw gas
Chainsaw oil
Socks!

Drive to Round Mountain Baptist Church and they’ll point you where you need to go. 

My phone is exploding all day long with people calling asking questions about needing to come. I’m sorry I can’t answer all these calls and text. The answer is without exception. “yes “. We need machines, manpower, and money.  If you show up, we will find a place to put you to work. If you have machinery, we will find a place to use it.  There is no lack of work to be done.

My advice from what I have noticed is, I would encourage people to hold off on bringing supplies like clothing, furniture, food, and those type of essentials that people lost the flood. I think the need for that will come next week. This week’s focus is on removing the debris so people can start coming back to the area and putting together their homes in their lives again. Right now they simply don’t have a place to put the things. I’m working on a plan to coordinate easy ways to get those very much needed supplies to the victims. But I’m waiting a few days to do it so that we can concentrate all efforts on getting the debris cleaned out. Please sit patiently with us and when the time comes, help us fill the knee quickly. There are so many people who have lost everything. It’s hard to grasp the damage. We are seeing and understand the devastating effect we see that it is done to so many people’s lives.

Without the help of our community, our state, and our country this wouldn’t get fixed for years. With all the help we see everyone throwing at these projects we are seeing great progress made every day.

Just because a few days has gone on by no means signals that less help is needed. It is desperately needed.

Please help, however you can. I will be working at the Camp Camp site through the end of the day Saturday. I am committed to trying to get this camp for special needs children in a beautiful condition for them to enjoy. As soon as that is done, I will point myself towards North Austin and fully commit to helping them get the manpower and resources they need.

Please go to either place… Whichever one is the most meaningful to you. We simply can’t have enough hands to help get this work finished.

Any contributions are welcome to be given to my nonprofit, Cordonate, where we give 103% of what is received to helping these victims. We raise money today and use it today. It is immediate and it is effective. If you would like your gift to go towards helping any victims throughout Central Texas, please put “flood” in your Venmo comment. If you would like your gift to be used strictly to help.Camp Camp , please say “Camp Camp” in the comment.

Venmo: Cordonate (after you have typed in the name you must click on the business tab at the top to find us as this is a nonprofit) it is spelled exactly as I wrote it with no punctuation, no dashes, no underlines. There R some fake accounts  mind ja sinoky “Cordonate”  

Thank you. 

If you want to help, but cannot physically come do it yourself You can always help by sharing this and encouraging others to show up. We desperately need any help we can get.

(All photos are from Camp Camp taken yesterday afternoon. You can see we have a long way to go).

120 dead. 173 unaccounted for.