Thursday, April 28, 2011
Dear Waterkeeper Alliance Family,
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, the home and office of your Hurricane Creekkeeper, John Wathen, took a direct hit from a category F4/F5 tornado. John is physically okay, but his residence and workplace were heavily damaged. Some of his nearby relatives lost their home entirely. The tornado was generated by the same storm system that devastated many areas of the South yesterday and, as of this morning, has killed 173 people—at least 120 of those victims were in John's home state of Alabama.
Much of John's computer and photographic equipment was destroyed by the tornado. If you know anything about John, you know thatphotography and videography lay at the heart of what he does to protect clean water every day of his life. He's been there, on the scene, snapping photos and showing the world the truth about the 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority ash pond disaster and the 2010 BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, John recently won a prestigious 2011 Roosevelt-Ashe Society Conservation Award for his reporting on Gulf oil disaster events.
In this time of great need, we ask you humbly to help us help John rebuild. Waterkeeper Alliance is helping collect online monetary donations that will be passed directly to Hurricane Creekkeeper in order to speed John’s recovery. Click the link below to donate online right now. Please remember to designate your gift on your donation form as Hurricane Creekkeeper Tornado Disaster Recovery where you see the Gift Designation field.
Please select Hurricane Creekkeeper Tornado Disaster Recovery
as the gift designation on your donation form.
as the gift designation on your donation form.
To send gifts by mail, please write to:
Waterkeeper Alliance
ATTN: Tornado Recovery
17 Battery Place
Ste. 1329
New York, NY 10004
(Please do not send credit card information through the mail.)
To phone in your gift, please call 212.747.0622 ext. 30.
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Your friends at Waterkeeper Alliance
The voice of the world's waters.
