We Had A Tornado Here On My Side Of The City Sunday Night & No One Is Calling For Donations Of Anything…

@AbbeyRhode It’s this way in Oklahoma. We’ve had so many tornados and many really violent ones that it’s just a habit we’ve learned automatically to want to help quickly. I have things I could donate if needed but no calls for it now. The media loves to focus on negativity. And I think what really, really helped with the attitude to help here is that our local media will put out a call for donations or help and when people respond they will focus POSITIVE attention on those who do with stories or praise. They know that everyone who contributes just wants to be appreciated to know that they are making a difference for others and it goes a long way to give thanks and positive attention.

@cherokeepatti Nice to hear your local media uses their power to do some good.

@AbbeyRhode one station has not been bought up by conglomerates and I think they do it best. The others want to compete so they do it too

@specman Disasters can either bring out the best in people or the worst in people. Mostly the best here. Sometimes we will have metal scrappers trying to get the scraps but the police have it pretty well guarded, was asking for ID for those entering or leaving the affected neighborhoods. And volunteer groups usually have their members wearing matching t-shirts to make identifying them much easier. If there was a call for donations of goods I have no doubt that there would be so much that they couldn’t use it all.