Hurricane Florence First Response and Flood Relief

Over the last week, my veteran team and I have been driving to different areas strongly hit and majorly damaged by Hurricane Florence. We’ve also been networking and gathering transport units and potential locations to collect donations.

a major concern now is mosquitos and standing water (where they breed and where contaminants are building up creating health hazards).

Our intent is to get funding to buy/ gather the following necessity/ non-necessity items in bulk amount to deliver to those who lost basically everything due to the hurricane, and then to churches and organizations in the immediate area to distribute as needs arrive to sustain residents until insurance or FEMA assistance arrives.

needed items are as:

• Mosquito water foggers
• Mosquito repellents
• Mosquito safety nets and traps
• Water testing kits (to check water safety and Ph/ alkaline levels)
• Water filtration units (for homes)
• Water sub-pumps
• mops and buckets
• first aid kits
• Hand sanitizer
• Visine eye drops
• Daily vitamins (adults and children)

We also want to buy

• All hygiene (male and female)

• AA-cell alkaline batteries

• Aspirin

• Baby powder

• Baby wipes

• Baseball caps

• Batteries (all sizes)

• Beef jerky/Slim Jims

• Blankets/ sheets

• Books

• Breath mints

• Hard candies

• Condiments

• Dental floss

• Deodorant

• Dry soup

• Electrolyte replacement drink mix

• Eye drops/wash

• Foot powder

• Gum

• Handheld or board games

• Holiday or seasonal decorations

• Hot Chocolate packets

• International phone card

• Kleenex

• Laundry detergent

• Magazines

• Mouthwash

• Pen, paper, envelopes

• Phone cards

• Poptarts

• Pillow

• Playing cards

• Popcorn

• Pre-paid Phone Card

• Protein powders / protein bars

• Q-tips

• Seasoning Salt

• Shampoo

• Sheets / blankets

• Shoes

• Socks

• Sunflower seeds

• Sunglasses

• Sunscreen

• Toilet paper

• Toiletries

• Toothpaste/toothbrush

• T-Shirts

• tarp/ plastic/ plywood

Links:

• Major concerns on the ground
• Huge mosquitos