The People of Kansas need our help

[Midnight Mike]

Roomies, time to open up your wallets & checkbooks to donate to Charitable Organizations to help the people of Kansas.

Towns were simply wiped out by the Tornado damage, take a look at the damage.....

http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050 ... doaerials/ (http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornadoaerials/)

Here is a list of some of the Charitable organizations that will accept your donation.

United Way of the Plains
http://www.unitedwayplains.org/
In Kansas dial 211 or 1-888-413-4327. (accepting donations and requests to volunteer)


The American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org/
Pratt Center: 620-672-3651 (accepting donations and requests to volunteer)


The Salvation Army
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn.nsf
1-800-SAL-ARMY (accepting donations)

[USAF Pilot 07]

This season has so far been very bad for the Western Plains. A little over a month ago, and tornado took several lives in Holly, Colorado (just West of Kansas).

Conditions this spring have been extremely favorable for the development of these storms. I live right along the front range of the Rockies in Colorado, and we've had two large snowstorms in April. This Saturday I was out playing golf, 65 degrees when we started, and about 30 minutes later a front moved through, dropped temps to just above freezing, with hail, groupel, and rain/snow mix, all in a T'storm. That night we picked up 4 inches of snow. The temperature gradient has been real strong, contributing to all these storms... One day it's 80 and sunny, the next 30 and snowy...