Hello all,

I'm working on cooperating with the San Antonio Food Bank to fly supplies into areas affected by Hurricane Harvey. There are several details that need to be worked out yet, but in the meantime I'm looking for any interested volunteers with aircraft able to help. I anticipate that the weekend would be the timeframe for the efforts due to continuing rescue ops and weather below VMC in the Houston area.

I will post updates as they unfold but for now, if you are interested in participating, please reply to this thread with a good contact method.

Thanks very much,

Cullen Parker

I'm in.

We're doing a run down to Georgetown TX on the 11th. We're going to fill the Bonanza with diapers (of all things); apparently they are in full shortage. If you think about it, new families, young babies, lost everything they have, diapers make all the sense in the world! We're calling it the great white diaper run.

I'm in the process of recruiting some local pilots (Denver based) to help.

Jim

You guys are great, thanks. Wish I could join you. Jim and Cullen if you guys have contact info you can pass on to me I get it to the pilots at Spicewood (88R), my Texas base, and I know I a bunch of them can help.

All,

I've been in contact with several different organizations this morning, and was finally referred to an organization that's connecting pilot volunteers to local needs in the Houston area. They've just stood up a website: www.aviatorshelpingsouthtexas.com There you'll find a sign up sheet.

I've signed up and I'm going to see what develops- will keep you all posted.

Best,

CP

I would love to help, my plane is in the shop close to Houston just inside the TFR, should be finished Monday or Tuesday next week, hopefully.

jaudette wrote:We're doing a run down to Georgetown TX on the 11th. We're going to fill the Bonanza with diapers (of all things); apparently they are in full shortage. If you think about it, new families, young babies, lost everything they have, diapers make all the sense in the world! We're calling it the great white diaper run.

I'm in the process of recruiting some local pilots (Denver based) to help.

Jim

Man, if I wasn't headed to Montana then. Keep us posted on further flights, I'd be interested after the 17th. My plane is out of commission for a bit, however I am happy to sit bitch and help navigate, pour coffee, or whatever until mine is flying again. I doubt relief needs will end any time soon.

Just signed up. Not sure if they are going to call on a guy way over here in Cali, but it would sure be a useful way to spend the weekend/ next week. Do they have that humidity thing I have always heard about?

I've heard Red Cross, Salvation Army, and maybe some other agency say that instead of sending / bringing relief supplies,
it's better to donate money.
The skeptic in me says that of course they'd prefer that--
not necessarily 100% of your donated cash goes for relief supplies,
and it's pretty tough to pay the overhead by skimming off the top of a truckload of pampers.
But I can see their point-
if they already have a supply logistics process set up to order receive and distribute supplies,
someone just showing up with a truckload or two of misc stuff just throws a wrench in the works.
They did say that after Katrina,
there was a lot of stuff just sitting in warehouses that was never passed along to the people who needed it--
presumably it was donated stuff, not stuff that came through their own supply chain.