9.11.2001

We Couldn’t Just Sit & Do Nothing!

Monday, 9.17.2011

6 AM

View from the Brooklyn-Queens

Expressway

Yellow Hats arrive at the Brooklyn Navy Yard & the BCNY/BCVA Disaster Response HQ

Northeast Region Disaster Unit

Brooklyn Navy Yard – Disaster Response HQ

Northeast Baptist Team Kitchen: Cooking on the left & Cleaning on the Right!

Power Source & ERVs (Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicles)

Staying in touch with Disaster Teams from Kentucky (under the Brooklyn Bridge) and Tennessee (lower Manhattan)

North Carolina Shower/Laundry 18-Wheeler – What luxury!

The Brig – Home Away from Home – Women’s Side!

Breakfast – 6 AM – but not always pancakes! – Yum!

Eat Hardy – the day is LONG!

Lunch Prep – 1500 hot meals by 10:30 AM!

Left: Cooking RiceBottom Left: Testing the Temp – 165° at least!Bottom Right: Cambros of Rice & Pineapple Chicken; cooked mixed veggies & fruit salad ; coffee & lemonade – ready to go!

Loading the ERVs – Cambros; fresh fruit; power bars; and clean sox.

Top Left: Lunch at 10 AM & rest

Top Right: 11 AM - Lunch is over. (MLS on Right)

Bottom Right: Time to start Dinner! (Tom on left!)

Top Left: Dirty Cambros unloaded

Top Right: Power wash team

Lower Left: Soap up, Water Rinse, & Clorox Rinse

One of New York’s Finest wants to help?Give him a Yellow Hat and apron – he doesn’t need to take off his “tool” belt! >

New York PIZZA for lunch – a gift from the precinct!

When the meals have gone it’s time to cook our dinner – anyone in the compound is welcome to join us.

The night we did spaghetti with meat sauce, and salad, 150 people chowed down – including our friends from the NYPD who just happened by!

Covering up at night as rain threatened.

Devotions and prayer at the end of the day for all those to whom we sent meals – the rescue/recovery workers, Coast Guard, NYPD, NYFD and all those old folks stranded in the apartment buildings with no electricity below 14th Street - no electricity , no elevators!

The Northeast Baptist and VA disaster teams worked 14 hours a day, cooked 5000 meals a day totaling 30,000 meals in six days.

On Saturday the new teams arrived and we drove home.For nearly a year the Northeast Baptist Disaster Teams manned the kitchen and fed thousands of workers.

September 11, 2002 - Remember