Interesting story. There is a guy up the road, originally S African now
American, and African-American (but a lighter shade). His father was the
BP rep in SA for a long time in the 50s and 60s. Whenever there was a
race in SA he would put up the drivers at their place, feed them, etc.
so this guy got to know ALL the racers back then, the Real Men. He got
involved in racing himself but soon gave it up when he ran out of money
and talent to compete.
He came to the US at some point and worked his a** off and got pretty
wealthy. He owns a company called ProPac (I think that is it) that is
in the disaster response business, they have warehouses all over (one
here near the airport) and have all kinds of stuff stored, tents, tarps,
cots, sleeping bags, water, whatever else it normally needed.
He has quite a car collection at his house, 25-30 cars, he has a couple
he races. (He might be selling them off, his place is for sale) I got
to visit his shop a coupla years ago, really nice guy. We were chatting
about his business and such, he said that FEMA had canceled his contract
and instead hired Walmart, Obama had told them too. He speculated on
how (who) that might have happened. While Walmart has an excellent
logistics network they know nothing about the disaster business.
Anyway, he was lamenting that he needed some political mojo to work on
this problem, he was hurting and was gonna have to sell some cars.
So I told him his neighbor right close by, a good friend, was good
friends with Sen. Tim Scott, had known him a long time. He got all
excited, I gave him the contact info, I guess he ended up talking to
Scott, not sure where it ever went. In any case I am hoping he still
has his business set up in the area here, will be needed.
--FT
On 10/6/16 6:11 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote:
People and stuff from here are already headed to Haiti or in Haiti.
Several organizations have already sent people/stuff to the SE to be
staged for the aftermath in FL, GA, and SC.
Mentioned organizations include the Red Cross and Nationwide Ins.
FWIW, Nationwide is the only insco I did not hear anything bad about
in the aftermath of katrina.
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