vrijdag 9 september 2011
De gaven zijn dus dusver heel gul geweest. Ik werd daar gewoon een beetje stil van.
We zitten reeds boven de $1000 op de paypal, nog niet wetende wat er op de europese rekening is overgemaakt.
Vraag vrienden en bekenden om mee te helpen als je kan. Alvast iedereen hartelijk dank.
Mark
What Peet says about this disaster...
(Nederlandse vertaling/Dutch translation: http://helpdevandijkjes.blogspot.com/2011/09/uit-het-relaas-van-peet.html )
“Dear all, thanks to everyone for all the support and sweet notes. These have definitely helped me feel better.
The situation is still pretty bad. Our motel has completely flooded, and everything inside is pretty much lost, including the carpet, all of our electrical appliances and cables, heater, furniture, washer and dryer, you name it. We were able to save some of the televisions and refrigerators. The water rose so quickly that there was really very little we could do. The bridge that ran across the creek has been completely wiped out. Our own home is partially dry, although the basement is flooded with about three of water, in spite of our two pumps which pump out 10 000 gallons of water per hour. Because of this, our heater pump has most likely died, especially since we couldn’t get it to work last week after Irene dumped all that water on us.
Yesterday, she wrote this on her blog:
“We hadn’t expected the extensive damage to the ground, huge pieces of the land and the concrete between the motel and the creek are gone. At the front of the property, there’s a hole that’s 6 meters (18 feet) long and 2 meters (6 feet) wide. It’s just unbelievable how much water there is everywhere….”
(Thank you, Judith, for your translation!)
Uit het relaas van Peet...
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How you can contribute
donderdag 8 september 2011
Hoe kan je doneren?
op naam van Elke Van den Broeck, 2460 Kasterlee, Belgie
en met vermelding van "Help de Van Dijkjes"
Help de Van Dijkjes na de overstromingen in upstate New York
Eerst was er de aardbeving, dan hurricane Irene en nu hebben we Lee.
Peet en haar gezin zijn nederamerikanen die een motel uitbaten in upstate NY.
Een hele uitdaging. Na veel en hard werk zijn zij er in geslaagd het motel vorm te geven. Onlangs zijn nog enkele kamers gerenoveerd.