Pinz supplies the Oso mud slide rescuers
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 7:39 pm
Since the Oso mud slide two weeks ago, there has been a huge outpouring of donations from local businesses and
private people alike for the victims and the search and rescue personnel. Our hospital in Arlington has become a collection
point and over the past week where volunteers have put together personal hygiene bags that are given out to the searchers as they come
out of the field to the FEMA shower / decontamination facilities (septic fields, stored gas/propane/chemicals and deceased
it's all considered a contaminated site).
We have over 500 personal bags, and literally a Walgreen store's worth of material to be taken to the site.
The community spirit of our local Costco, Walgreens, Harbor Freight, as well as numerous small professional offices and businesses is wonderful to behold.
But all this stuff has to be sorted and taken where it's needed.
(I'm getting to the Pinzgauer part.)
This is half the load, we're taking the other half Sunday to the town of Darrington on the upper end of the slide.
It was a 40 minute drive, now a 2 1/2 hour excursion.
Can't think of a better vehicle to haul the goods up there (OK, the F.D.T. but it's not here). I almost have enough weight to straighten out
the rear wheel camber. Boy does she ride smooth loaded up like that!
private people alike for the victims and the search and rescue personnel. Our hospital in Arlington has become a collection
point and over the past week where volunteers have put together personal hygiene bags that are given out to the searchers as they come
out of the field to the FEMA shower / decontamination facilities (septic fields, stored gas/propane/chemicals and deceased
it's all considered a contaminated site).
We have over 500 personal bags, and literally a Walgreen store's worth of material to be taken to the site.
The community spirit of our local Costco, Walgreens, Harbor Freight, as well as numerous small professional offices and businesses is wonderful to behold.
But all this stuff has to be sorted and taken where it's needed.
(I'm getting to the Pinzgauer part.)
This is half the load, we're taking the other half Sunday to the town of Darrington on the upper end of the slide.
It was a 40 minute drive, now a 2 1/2 hour excursion.
Can't think of a better vehicle to haul the goods up there (OK, the F.D.T. but it's not here). I almost have enough weight to straighten out
the rear wheel camber. Boy does she ride smooth loaded up like that!