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Staying the course: one year later, pro dealers continue to respond to the needs of a Gulf Coast ravaged by natural disaster.(Editor's Notes)
On Aug. 3 at 8:08 p.m., my girlfriend and I were in our living room watching television when suddenly it felt like someone had grabbed the sofa from behind us and was trying to tip it over. All of the furniture began likewise pitching back and forth and the loose objects across our apartment--desk lamps, phones, radios--all began to shake rhythmically as the shockwaves from an earthquake pulsed through our building. Although the epicenter was 42 miles north of our home in San Francisco (and almost 6 miles underground), the 4.4-magnitude earthquake was still quite a shaker to us, and was the first seismic activity that we had experienced in the Bay Area since relocating here 16 months ago.
Thankfully, neither we nor anyone in the area suffered loss of life or sustained any serious damage. But many who are subjected to the devastating power of natural disasters are not as lucky. As we pass the one-year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rim disasters, PROSALES finds it suitable to again pay homage to the heroes in our industry--both sung and unsung-who helped to turn the tide on what became tragedies of national proportions.
Pro dealers, specialty suppliers, and the vendor community stepped in immediately in the wake of the storms with huge cash donations, truckloads of food and supplies, and plenty of materials and manpower for the rebuilding effort that is still ongoing in the region. Assistance came from as far away as Bar Harbor, Maine, where Granville Lumber helped to sponsor a hurricane relief walk/ran that raised $2,403.83 for the American Red Cross, to California, where Monterey-based Hayward Lumber's locations discounted building materials for a kit home that was constructed by Habitat for Humanity and then shipped to a displaced family in Mississippi. In Indiana, employees from Frank Miller Lumber in Union City and Salem raised $2,402.85--a figure matched by company owners--to assist lumberyards in the Gulf region affected by the hurricanes.
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