I arrived back home on Saturday.  Each volunteer is required to talk with a mental health councilor before out processing.  After being so involved, working 10 or more hours a day, maintaining a very fast pace, some people experience a let down returning home.  I can identify to some extent.  I am glad to get home after being away for so long but feel like there is still so much work to do there.  I left just as a new group of volunteers arrived. 

Here are some of the folks I worked with in Covington.   

Special thanks to Nortel, my manager Mike and my fellow engineers for covering for me while I was away.  This was an experience I will never forget.  I have been asked to attend follow up training and will become active in the local Raleigh Red Cross chapter.  Hats off to the THOUSANDS of volunteers from the organizations working in the gulf region and Florida. These people are from all walks of life, young and old.  This is what America is all about. 

For more information on Red Cross Disaster services go here.

The Red Cross has distributed over 1 Billion dollars in aid for Katrina and Rita relief but donations have not kept up with the distributions.  To fill the gap, the Red Cross has borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars.  If you are able,  please make a contribution.

http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html