From PCRISPE1@UA1VM.UA.EDUWed Oct 11 22:35:09 1995
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 15:04:57 CDT
From: Patrick Douglas Crispen
To: TOURBUS@colossus.net
Subject: TOURBUS 10/12 -- ALABAMA POWER & THE RED CROSS
TOURBUS -- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12
TODAY'S STOP: ALABAMA POWER AND THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
TODAY'S ADDRESSES: http://www.southernco.com:80/apc/apc.htm
http://www.crossnet.org/
Today's TOURBUS is going to stop at the World Wide Web homepages
of two of the unsung heros of hurricane Opal: Alabama Power and
the American Red Cross.
As most of you know by know, Alabama and Florida were recently
pounded by hurricane Opal. Opal killed 19 people in 4 states,
destroyed over 1,100 homes, and caused over 1.8 billion dollars
in damage. Opal was the third most expensive storm in US history,
behind only hurricanes Andrew and Hugo.
Opal also caused considerable damage to Alabama (in fact, Opal was
the worst storm to ever hit this state). Opal blew down over
1,400 electrical poles and over 400 miles of power lines, leaving
over 40% of Alabama Power's customers without power.
One week later, those 1400 poles and 400 miles of power lines have
been replaced, and Alabama once again has power. If that isn't
worth a tip of the hat to the super-human folks at Alabama Power,
I don't know what is.
Alabama Power's homepage is at
http://www.southernco.com:80/apc/apc.htm
(Actually, other than some pretty important safety information,
this page probably won't have a lot of information that will be
of use to you ... but I still wanted to thank Alabama Power for
all of their hard work (its hard to write e-mail in the dark)) :)
The other unsung hero of hurricane Opal -- and, for that matter, any
other disaster -- is the American Red Cross. Even before Opal had
come ashore, Red Cross disaster relief teams were already in place
in towns across the South. The Red Cross provided food, clothing,
and shelter for tens of thousands of people caught in the path of
the storm, and Red Cross volunteers were the first people on the
scene to lead the clean-up effort.
The American Red Cross homepage is at
http://www.crossnet.org/
What is most amazing about the Red Cross is that "9,010 Red Cross
disaster workers -- including local volunteers -- have responded
to hurricanes this season. These workers have provided over 800,000
meals and sheltered more than 100,000 people."
All Red Cross disaster relief is completely free. The Red Cross
does not receive one cent in funding from the US government. Instead,
all of the Red Cross' services are made possible by voluntary donations
of time and money from the American people.
After the recent string of hurricanes (and, of course, the Oklahoma
City bombing), it would mean a lot to me if you took a few minutes
to check out the Red Cross homepage :)
TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY
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TARRED - adverb. Exhausted.
Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."
******************** The WorldWideWeb Handbook **********************
For a good book on how to write your own Web files, see
"The WorldWideWeb Handbook"
(ITCP ISBN 1-85032-205-8)
Details on the Web at http://www.ucc.ie/~pflynn/books/wwwbook.html
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