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Well as y'all saw from Kismet's update we made it home yesterday evening safe if not totally sound. I have slept most of the day away today recuperating from a hard Army cot with a 3" foam pad, that made it bearable too sleep on.:thumbup: 
Mostly the food was good although sometimes too salty for me but with Jerri's homemade hot biscuits from scratch I hoarded a few of I made it just fine.
No one can fault the Rolling Hills Community Center Shelter that isn't normally a shelter but a place for the senior citizens to gather for lunch and socializing as the local volunteers were more than absolutely wonderful, bending over backwards to please all of us older folks!
HOWEVER,
The American Red Cross reinforced my BAD, and ANGRY, feelings about them!!!!:thumbdn: :thumbdn: :thumbdn: :thumbdn: The American Red Cross wanted to close our little shelter forcing us older folks into areas inconvenient to us and but for the efforts of our local volunteers would have taken all of our cots. Then after folding up fifty of them that weren't being used anyway the American Red Cross, leaving the twenty that were being used even if not all the time, they let them set until everyone left at about 7:00 last night.
There's a lot more but mostly time and the days just ran together, I'll make new threads as I think on all that happened.
It was nice being there with mostly older folks so it was pretty quiet most of the time.
The high point of my days spent there was Sunday when I got to meet an 86 years young gentleman that was in Merrill's Marauder's, one Ralph Lawson. Ralph deserves a thread of his own and he shall have it, a very interesting man to talk with!:thumbup:
Mostly the food was good although sometimes too salty for me but with Jerri's homemade hot biscuits from scratch I hoarded a few of I made it just fine.
No one can fault the Rolling Hills Community Center Shelter that isn't normally a shelter but a place for the senior citizens to gather for lunch and socializing as the local volunteers were more than absolutely wonderful, bending over backwards to please all of us older folks!
HOWEVER,
The American Red Cross reinforced my BAD, and ANGRY, feelings about them!!!!:thumbdn: :thumbdn: :thumbdn: :thumbdn: The American Red Cross wanted to close our little shelter forcing us older folks into areas inconvenient to us and but for the efforts of our local volunteers would have taken all of our cots. Then after folding up fifty of them that weren't being used anyway the American Red Cross, leaving the twenty that were being used even if not all the time, they let them set until everyone left at about 7:00 last night.
There's a lot more but mostly time and the days just ran together, I'll make new threads as I think on all that happened.
It was nice being there with mostly older folks so it was pretty quiet most of the time.
The high point of my days spent there was Sunday when I got to meet an 86 years young gentleman that was in Merrill's Marauder's, one Ralph Lawson. Ralph deserves a thread of his own and he shall have it, a very interesting man to talk with!:thumbup:
With your back problems, an Army cot isn't exactly proscribed.
Me neither, but in the wake of at least one hurricane, they tried to help. The MRE's were definitely better, and that ain't saying much.
. Glad you survived the big freeze and had some interesting folks to meet as well. Good to have you back:thumbup:.
The subsequent, official response was that the Scouts were not "trained" (to hand out Kool-Aid?).
What's worse, the Scout Executive for the Council agreed. Guess he didn't want to anger the "powers that be." 