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Roughriders Assist Victims in Beulah
1st Lt Kim Hetzel, ND Wing March 30th 2009


 

3 Officers and 8 cadets spent the weekend in Beulah helping flood victims by assisting the Red Cross and Salvation Army.

Over 200 homes were affected by the Beulah flood. The Salvation Army and Red Cross were very active helping the flood victims. Area churches were providing lunches and suppers for people in need and volunteers. Our CAP disaster relief team was lodged at the Civic Center and slept on Red Cross cots. The Salvation Army provided breakfast and snacks.

Squadron members assisted in the clean-up efforts by removing snow drifts from drives and doorways before entering basements to carry soggy belongings to the curb. The cadets helped fill sand bags needed for the anticipated flooding due to this current blizzard.

The day ended with another blizzard catching us before we got home.

After leaving cadets in Dickinson my daughter (Cadet Jamie Hetzel) and I  got caught for 2 hours on I-94 behind a jack-knifed semi-truck. Thanks to the CAP van's radio they knew help was coming with sanding trucks and a tow-truck.

Now we are back to where we were last week. Snowed in and unable to answer the calls for help from the east.

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