salamnderginger:weavemama: you know America is going thru some shit when a damn cruise ship company
salamnderginger: weavemama: you know America is going thru some shit when a damn cruise ship company offers more help than the president As a former employee of Royal Caribbean I feel the need to tell you more about all of this. This isn’t the first ship they’ve cancelled and used for humanitarian relief. After Harvey & Irma decimated the Caribbean they canceled cruisings for two of their ships and then filled them with water, food, and people willing to help. They evacuated stranded Americans and anyone in need of medical attention. They left at max capacity and created a web page that families and friends could watch to check on this ship’s progress and location. (Which, sadly, has since been deleted.) They opened a donation line that they would match up to $1 million. When hurricane Marie looked like it was making a bee line for Florida the canceled a cruise and instead used that ship to evacuate employees and their families based in Florida. After Hurricane Marie tore through they canceled another cruise and filled that ship with food, water, doctors, and hundreds of generators. They’ll be evacuating anyone who needs it. Sometimes companies get things right. (The day they arrived they opened the ship to the locals for free food, AC, as much as they could drink, and activities for the kiddos.) (They donated thousands of pounds of dog food and then bought more so that people could evacuate with their pets.) -- source link