May 2008
8 posts
May 14 (Wednesday EST): Contact for Donations
Here are a couple of people/organizations that you can contact to make your donation: Frank Zhou (CBAA): frank.zhou@desma-group.com Cang Li (ASCA): cang@selectoinc.com, Atlanta Sichuan-Chongqing Association (ASCA).
May 14 (Wednesday EST): Donations are pouring, and...
Donations are pouring from overall the worlds, by dindividuals, organizations or goverments, this has been tremendously helpful! If you would like to donate, please review the attached document SCearthquakeFund.pdf for detail, thank you for your support!
May 14 (Wednesday EST): I can call Chengdu now
I was able to call Chengdu today, and I had fairly long talk with my mom and sister, and captured more details: By now, there were about 14,000 death total, and there were more than 500 deaths in Chengdu lots of schools are out waiting for building safety inspection Govenment sent lots of rescue effort Lots of volunteer work. Lots of blood donor, much more than usual Lots of donations …By...
May 13 (Tuesday EST): "What's wrong with my car"
Here are some experience people shared: A friend said: “I was going downstirs when earthquake occured. Suddenly, the floor was wabbling, I could not stay stable! It seemed last forever. I managed to come out the building, seeing the whole high building (over 10-floor) were wabbling, it was like a dream, that’s scene you only see on the movie. The survival feeling from disaster makes me...
May 13 (Tuesday EST): My mom called!
As usual, I continued to try to reach my folks on the phone throughout the days. Ding, I got a call from my mom, what a nice surprise. We captured some details, then the phone went dead. But that was good enough for me. The death toll has reached 12,000 by now…the schools in Chengdu were all halted, lots of things were paused..
May 12 (Monday EST): A talk with my brother
9:00pm EST: Luck came to me one time that I was able to reach my brother on his cell phone. He was driving from Beijing to Chengdu, and he was in Xi’an while the earthquake happened. He told me that he got some information here and there that folks in Chengdu are OK, but the rescue to Wenchuan was very hampered due to the heavy rain, mud-slide, rock falling, broken communication (road and...
May 12 (Monday EST): Earth sunk!
Monday EST. 7:00am EST: After I sent the kids to school, I happened to check news on cnn.com, there was a report of a devasdating earthquake happending around 2:30am EST Monday morning in Sichuan, I can’t believe it! What’s going on? The earth just sunk and sky just felt!!! I started to grab the phone trying to reach my family and friends in Chengdu, no phone went through: i tried...
May 11 (Sunday EST): Mother's Day, world peace
I called my mother in Chengdu at 9:15pm (EST) on Sunday, May 11 to wish her a happy Mother’s Day. We had a nice chat, world was peaceful.