I don’t think I realized how dire the situation is in Houston. I think it’s understated because when you hear less than a dozen (8 so far) people have lossed their lives, compared to the staggering number of 1,833 in Hurricane Katrina, you think it’s not that bad. Sure, once the water recedes, those numbers will unfortunately rise but for now, I don’t know if it’s getting the coverage it needs right now.
But it is. With the Addicks reservoir now toppling over, having reached above the 108 foot wall, additional danger is imminent.Β I’m more of a visual person so I want to show you pictures I’ve found on the internet so far.
We have to help these people you guys. We just need to do something. Even if it’s donating a dollar. When 9/11 happened, I was 26. I created fliers and hung them all over our apartment complex asking for all sorts of donations. All sorts of things poured in. After days of collecting, I loaded it all up in my car and dropped it off at the Red Cross. Now that I have the ability to reach folks all over the world, I’m asking for your help.
I set up a Go Fund Me Account called Bloggers for Houston. Please donate something here or somewhere for Houston! We gotta do something! I mean come on guys, we donate more to March Madness and Office Bets. I decided to give any donations I collect to Save the Children- Hurricane Harvey Children’s Relief Fund. Let’s help Houston Hot Mess’s!!!!
BLOGGERS FOR HOUSTON GO FUND ME PAGE
P.S. In the next week, I’ll be doing an Ass Hole of the Month-September as I have found the perfect candidate: a millionaire pastor who refused to let people into the church as a refuge from the hurricane.
IF your blog was set up so I could reblog this to my blog, more people would see it and just might go to your gofundme account and donate to Huston. Reblogging is a very good thing for times such as this. Ciao Bella
Thank you for letting me know I’m missing the reblog icon. Crap! I’m searching now for adding it. I used a separate plugin for social media and somehow this was omitted. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
My friend copied my link to post on her blog. Just an idea. I’m trying to get a reblog button added now.
You add a reblog button and I reblog everything you post. You are just that good. ?βΊοΈ???
Wow! That’s a pretty sweet deal! Still working on it. Thank you!
No one has helped me yet on the reblog button. Draw back #453 of being self-hosted. π
There should be an option in your sharing section of your blogs dashboard. Reblogging is just sharing and I see you have several buttons for sharing social media….look in the place where you can add sharing and like buttons, if you have not already.
I did my research and that is apparently the drawback of self-hosting. It sucks. Even the chat forums can’t give me a straight answer on this. I’ve looked in those places. The recommendation I’m seeing is that readers enable the press this button then they can easily reblog my content. But that’s kinda’ dumb considering readers must take this extra action.
Well, let me go see if that will work and if it does, I will reblog you cause besides being sooooo hat, you have talent that should be shared….I’ll go see what happens.
Well. fuck me running, it worked, pressing the Press This icon reblogged a link back to your blog….Damn. Thank you gorgeous lady.
Well thank you sir! That’s awesome!!
I am thrilled.
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I don’t see a reblog button either HM but I’ll just copy the link in a post for you π
Bless you! Thank you!! I am up to $60! Yeah!!
woohoo!!
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This is brilliant and wonderful and I’m sharing it every way I can think of
Thank you so much! I haven’t checked today but I’ve had $60 of donation as of yesterday. Let’s keep our fingers crossed we get more!!!