Update on Relief Effort:

[Roland99]

From the WWLTV blog:

WHAT'S BEING OFFERED

-- Companies are donating money and goods for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

-- American Red Cross says at least 30 companies had made donations by Wednesday morning.

-- The number is expected to climb.

-- U.S. Chamber of Commerce says initial corporate donations could total more than $100 million.

SOME MONETARY DONATIONS

-- Chevron: $5 million.

-- JPMorgan Chase: $3 million.

-- Citigroup: $3 million.

-- Walt Disney Co.: $2.5 million.

-- Pfizer: $2 million.

-- Abbott Laboratories: $2 million.

-- State Farm: $1 million.

-- EDS: Will match employee contributions up to $1 million.

HEALTH CARE DONATIONS

-- Eli Lilly: 40,000 vials of refrigerated insulin.

-- Wyeth: antibiotics and nonprescription pain relievers.

-- Merck: antibiotics and hepatitis A vaccines.

-- Johnson & Johnson: Pain relievers, wound care supplies and kits containing toothbrushes, soap and shampoo.

-- Abbott Laboratories: At least $2 million in nutritional and medical products.

SOME OTHER DONATIONS

-- Nissan: 50 trucks for Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

-- General Motors: 25 cars and trucks to the Red Cross.

-- Sprint Nextel: 3,000 walkie talkie-type phones for emergency personnel.

-- Qwest Communications: 2,000 long-distance calling cards.

-- Kellogg: Seven truckloads of crackers and cookies.

-- Culligan International: Five truckloads of water.

-- Anheuser-Busch: more than 825,000 cans of water.

-- Office Depot: Contents of its five New Orleans stores, valued at $4 million.

8:50 A.M. - (AP): -- The world is reacting to America's disaster. Saudi Arabia says it's ready to increase crude oil production to replace market shortages. Venezuela is offering humanitarian aid and fuel. Canada's Red Cross is assembling volunteers. French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder sent messages of sympathy to President Bush.

[MercutioATC]

1. I love it when beer companies donate water.

Apparently, they can just change what goes into the cans and do a run of water instead of beer.

I heard about it a couple of years ago...I just thought it was interesting.

[Maiden England]

2. yeah, but I'd bet some people complain - the beer tastes like water

couldn't resist - sorry!

[MercutioATC]

7. Anheuser-Busch? Their beer already tastes like water!

:)

Sorry, I'm a Guinness/Bass drinker.

[tyedyeto]

9. They have been doing this for years.

I was evacuated in 1987 for a very large forest fire in California. A-B (the Bud people) had canned water that was distributed thru the Red Cross.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Where's Halliburton's donation? n/t

[meganmonkey]

4. America's Second Harvest is receiving lots of food/water donations

from various companies. If I can find out specifically who is donating, I will list them.

[LunaSea]

5. So FEMA just needs to bring the chips? n/t

[KittyWampus]

6. have Petro. Corps Agreed To Reduce Profits By 20%?

[Roland99]

10. * ignored that question when it was posed of him by Diane Sawyer

[OneBlueSky]

8. and none of this will help stranded people if they don't get water TODAY

what in the fuck is the matter with the people "managing" this so-called rescue effort? . . . don't they know that people can survive a long time without food, but not without water? . . . why are there thousands at the Convention Center who no one has paid any attention to at all? . . . why isn't someone distributing/dropping pallets of bottled water, or at least getting some to the people we can actually SEE on rooftops and in windows? . . .

this whole rescue effort is as much a catastrophe as the storm itself . . . no one's in charge, and people will begin dying in large numbers very soon for lack of water . . .

[Roland99]

12. 5 days and no potable water.

:(

[Roland99]

11. Kick