Goodness gracious, Lori.  No need to apologize.  My
beau is in Tampa.  We talked on the cell today and I
could hear the awful weather.  If we had not had the
tragedies of earlier this week, I'm confident many of
us would be very alarmed about what Ms. Gabrielle has
been doing.




--- Lori Tomlinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear listers:
>
> Please allow me to comment on the post I sent
> earlier regarding today's
> flooding at our museum in Florida.
>
> This posting was not intended to take away from the
> tragedy in New York, DC,
> and elsewhere, and I am sorry if my post was
> interpreted that way... it is
> just another reminder for museums to always be
> prepared.  I, as are most
> Americans, am keeping one eye on the TV while trying
> to return to "business
> as usual," as we have been repeatedly urged to do.
> I am truly sorry to have
> offended or upset anyone.
>
> I reiterate my message:  all museums, big and small,
> must be prepared for any
> number of disasters.  We were fortunate to have
> gotten our artifacts to
> safety today, and that no one who stood waist-deep
> in the rapidly moving
> water was injured.  In a situation like ours, an
> advance plan and quick
> action helped keep a bad situation from growing
> worse.  We should be able to
> reopen in two weeks.  We were lucky -- in the larger
> scheme of things, QUITE
> lucky.
>
> My apologies if this was covered in another post
> over the last few days, but
> is the museum community, through a larger
> organization such as AAM, taking a
> collection to help the Museums affected in New York?
>  If not, how might we go
> about doing this?  Imagine what $5 from even half
> the museums in the US could
> do.
>
> Lori Tomlinson
> Florida Adventure Museum
> Punta Gorda, Fla., USA
>
>


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