Hello fellow Bottleheads,
By now most of you have probably heard of and/or seen the devastating floods in Boulder and a few other places along the Front Range of the Rockies.
We are fine -- not even a drop of water in our basement but our next door neighbor has some significant flooding in hers -- which has happened before though not on this scale. In our condo community this is the only home that sustained any damage, so we are all very thankful and fortunate.
Many, many others, including many very good friends are not so lucky, most of them had to be evacuated from their mountain homes by Blackhawk helicopters but there are still hundreds of people unaccounted for, and still many friends who we cannot contact.
It's a mess of enormous scale and yesterday we learned that this is already the second largest airlift rescue mission since Katrina, and the rain is supposed to pick up again tonight and tomorrow.
Anyway, I hope this is ok with Dan, but I'd like to ask for some help from the BH community... Two very close friends who used to live in the apartment above ours lived in one of the hardest hit areas in the mountains and on Thursday morning they watched as their nextdoor neighbor's house floated away, and then more and more over the next day. They couldn't get out and we could not get to them, but finally yesterday afternoon one of the blackhawks was able to land and take them, their two dogs and cat out -- shortly after the retaining wall behind their home cracked. They have no idea if their home will be there when they can get back there and they have no idea when they'll be able to get back. It looks pretty sure like they will lose everything, but for now they are staying here in our community in the Woman's brother's basement indefinitely.
Of course the community here is rallying to support them and in my small way I plan to help out too as they are both music lovers and Jeff is a brother audiophile as well. I am planning to give them my Orcas and sub, but given all the other support we need to give them and other close friends, I simply cannot afford to build them a s.e.x or stereomour amp to go with the speakers. I am also donating my modified sony playstation as a cd player and building them an alix based music server and everything else needed to put together some music for them as it could be months or years before they are resettled in a real home of their own again.
So, as much as I want to do this for them on my own, I'm asking those who are in a position to help if they may chip in a few bucks towards the purchase of a s.e.x or stereomour kit and if somebody has something like an HRT music streamer dac they aren't using, that would help but is not necessary at this point.
Of course every cent will go to these people, there will be no boutique upgrades and I will supply all interconnects and speaker cables, etc. (which I already have plenty of lying around.). It is best to email me directly and then I can give you my paypal account and can keep a running total and I will announce when we have sufficient funds.
Please only do this if you are completely comfortable doing so -- I don't want anybody to feel guilty about not giving -- sometimes we are simply not in a position to do this. For me, this is one of the very few ways I can help my friends with something tangible and that I can do myself.
Thanks for reading,
Jim
