Stunning Response From Everyone!!

(Talk 102.3 FM's Scott "Quake" McMahon and Wally Witkowski at the Hurricane Katrina Relief Drive) WOW! The Tennessee Valley has really pulled through for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Cars and trucks streamed into Velocity Sports for the relief effort starting a day early and kept on coming through last night. When the numbers were tallied, you helped raise over $133,000. And you brought in 13,000 cases of bottled water, enough to fill 7 semi-trailers.
Everyone who came had a story. Some were hurricane survivors from past storms. Others had friends or relatives in the effected areas. But overall it was just people, churches, and schools doing what they could. One man came up and said he didn't have much, but he wanted to give five dollars. And this wasn't the only successful drive being held in the area yesterday.
I know this won't replace people, homes, or belongings that were lost. But I believe this will replace some lost hope.
Right now people in New Orleans are asking, "Where is the help?" We know that. What THEY don't know is....it's here. And in communities across this great country of ours. Soon they will find out Americans are rallying behind them. And I believe many of them will be lifted up from their darkest hours by the shining generosity shown here in Chattanooga and elsewhere.
(The event was co-ordinated by Talk 102.3, KZ 106, The Duke FM, and Channel 3 Eyewitness News.)