TRIP REPORT
HURRICANE SANDY DISASTER RELIEF
SOMERSET COUNTY, MARYLAND
On November 30, 2012, Bob Fuller and I drove St. Matthew’s UMC truck loaded with disaster relief supplies to Princess Anne, Maryland. This is the second trip to Somerset County at the request of the Peninsula UMC Conference. At the direction of Rev. Rich Walton, Disaster Response Coordinator for the Conference, we met with Steve Marshall, Director of Somerset County’s Office of Emergency Management, and Vicki Lloyd, Planner in Princess Anne, to determine where to deliver the supplies. Mr. Marshall arranged the drop off of supplies at the local fire departments in two communities that had been hard-hit with wind and flood water from the hurricane. He also called the Eastern Shore Corrections Center and obtained work-release inmates to help unload the truck at each stop. We followed Mr. Marshall and Ms. Lloyd in their truck and made deliveries to the following places:
- Somerset County Office of Emergency Management, Princess Anne
- 21 UMCOR flood buckets
- 38 UMCOR health kits
- 6 gallons of bleach
- 33 winter coats*
- Seton Sisters of Charity, Hampden Ave., Princess Anne
- 20 quilts and blankets, plus assorted men’s clothing
- Volunteer Fire Department, Upper Fairmount
- 50 bags of cards and candy for children
- 48 bottles of liquid dish soap plus hand soap
- 40 UMCOR health kits
- 103 winter coats *
- 64 UMCOR flood buckets
- Volunteer Fire Department, Deal Island
- 99 UMCOR flood buckets
- 24 UMCOR health kits
- 6 gallons of bleach
- 12 spray bottles of bleach
- 50 bags of cards and candy for children
* All of the winter coats were collected and donated by Andrew Smith, member of St. Matthew’s UMC, as part of his Eagle Scout Project
Report prepared by Dan Blades, Disaster Response Coordinator
St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church
Bowie, Maryland