While Carol aka cracklin, aka Reel Mckoi continue her slander against
JW's and critize their disaster relief efforts.
JW's from her Home State have better things to do!
http://www.ashlandcitytimes.com/apps/pbcs
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Tennessee workers' chain saws help ravaged town cleave to hope
Homeowners welcome these house calls by Jehovah's Witnesses crew
Friday, 09/16/05
Jehovah's Witness Eric Pierce of Sparta takes a break at the end of the
day with friend Jonathan Clouse of Sparta after a long day of cutting
downed and damaged trees in Waveland and Bay St. Louis, Miss.
Removing a fallen pecan tree from a house they own could have cost Alan
and Vivian Jensen $900. A group of Jehovah's Witnesses did it for free,
finally giving the couple something to smile about.
WAVELAND, MISS. - Alan Jensen and his wife, Vivian, couldn't believe
their good fortune. Five men from two Tennessee towns the couple had
never heard of showed up on the Jensens' street in this atrina-clobbered
Gulf Coast village with chain saws in hand. The Tennesseans, Jehovah's
Witnesses from Liberty and Sparta, offered to help out at no cost.
"Wherever there's a disaster, we go,'' said Bill Stebbins, who runs a
floor buffing and waxing business in Sparta. "We help out our fellow
Jehovah's Witnesses, but we also help anybody who asks us. We don't turn
anybody away.
It was the "free" that really got the Jensens' attention. "It's a
godsend,'' said Vivian, a home health nurse who earlier in the week had
gotten a quote for $900 to remove a tall pecan tree that Katrina toppled
at their rental property. Considering the majority of their other home's
damage - estimated at $40,000-plus - came from flooding, and the Jensens
didn't have flood insurance, the $900 was a financial burden they
couldn't afford. The Jensens' home on Jefferson Davis Avenue was soaked
by the Category 4 hurricane. According to Alan, a retired oceanographer
at a nearby naval facility, his 116-year-old home was built on ground
that is 23 feet above sea level. The blue house sits on a yard-high
foundation. "And we still had 2 feet of water inside the house. That
means the storm surge was at least 28 feet high, an extraordinary thing
to happen. We're a quarter- to a half-mile from the beach,'' he said.
"Nobody on our street had flood insurance because the water had never
been that high." But the Jensens are counting their blessings. Their
home is still standing, unlike those of many of their friends and
acquaintances living closer to the Gulf. All of the homes within six
blocks of the water are now just piles of broken timber. There's not
even a faint similarity to the way the community used to look.
Destruction is complete, in every direction. Since returning to their
home a few days after the storm, the Jensens had been camping out on
their property while stripping away anything that had gotten wet:
drywall, rugs, shelving, carpets. They wanted to move to a rental home
they own a few minutes away in nearby Bay St. Louis, another small town
that suffered massive damage, but a pecan tree had fallen onto the
yellow, two-bedroom cottage. A dinner plate-sized hole in the roof
opened the interior to the elements, and numerous shingles had flown off
to who knows where. Soon after the Jensens asked if Stebbins and his
crew could help, the couple was leading a convoy on the short drive from
Jefferson Davis Avenue in Waveland to St. John Street in Bay St. Louis.
The men from Middle Tennessee exited their pickups, surveyed the damage
from the ground and climbed a ladder to the roof. Ken Skinner, a logger
from Liberty, came up with the strategy to take down the tree without
doing further damage to the roof. First, the tree's smaller limbs at the
top would be lopped off, then three-foot sections of the trunk would be
cut, down to the point of impact. Skinner, 54, planned to bring down the
rest of the tree by tying a rope
to the top and having his four co-workers pull the tree away from the
house with the rope while he cut the tree near its base. "I like to come
out and help in these kinds of things. This is what I do for a living,
cutting trees, so it's what I'm good for. A lot of these people have
lost everything. I don't mind giving up some vacation time to lend
a hand,'' Skinner said. Several hundred fellow Jehovah's Witnesses from
Middle Tennessee are scheduled to work in Waveland and Bay St. Louis
during the next several months, on projects such as tree and debris
removal and some home rebuilding
"People know us for our door-to-door visitation, but we're a lot more
than that,'' Skinner said. Jonathan Clouse, 20, of Sparta said coming to
the storm-damaged Gulf Coast had made him grateful for what he has. "A
lot of these people have lost everything. They have nothing left because
the storm took it all. I've never seen anything like this,'' he said.
For block after block, houses have been stripped to their foundations.
Walls and roofs are blocks away, piled up in a 6-foot-high jumble of
two-by-fours. "This is unbelievable. It'll be hard to describe to the
people back home,'' said Eric Pierce, 30, of Sparta, his T-shirt soaked
with the sweat and grime of a hard day's work that began at 4 a.m.
Fourteen hours later, the five men and their chain saws were finally
calling it a day with the Jensens' pecan tree. "Pull,'' said Skinner.
The rope grew taut on the top of the trunk still resting on the Jensens'
home. With a jerk of the saw's starter rope, the cutting machine growled
to life. The veteran logger notched the base of
the tree on one side and then made a cut from the opposite direction.
With a dull thud the trunk of the tree fell to the ground away from the
house. "I can't thank these guys enough. They did it for free,
unbelievable,'' Vivian Jensen said. "It's so hard for me to accept help,
but now is the time to accept help. This is just beyond us,'' she said.
"I hope we'll revive here," her husband said. "I think we will, with a
stronger sense of being. These kinds of things
make you think."
Lies that Carol spewed about JW's
Here are things you wrote:
$$...JWs do not believe in any form
of charity outside their own exclusive cult/clique/quasi-religion.
$$ Because we were taught that all non-JWs are swine who trample the
WTS/GB's pearls and don't deserve help of any kind from anyone. We're
seen as the walking dead.
$$ No matter what wicked thing your org' does you will defend them.
( a wicked organization?, not according to the news article.
$$ What a BUNCH of hypocrites you JWs are. Did Jesus ask people what
religion or cult they belonged to before helping them?
(the people in the news articles aren't jw's)
## Except these people from our local churches are willing to help
everyone. No one asks what church the person needling help belongs to,
unlike the JWs.
(the people in the news articles aren't jw's)
## The people here who do this are not Gov. funded. The local churches
in my area are now taking up collections of food, personal items and
clothing for the victims of Katrina. The Gov. is not paying them a cent
and the church itself pays the bills for the building and utilities
used. Volunteers will drive the trucks down south.... no Gov. involved.
Where are the JWs? What are they doing to help the non-JW victims of
this storm and flood?
(read the news article...)
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