Flood Buckets

The United Methodist Committee on Relief's number one and two needs right now are money and health kits. In the post below I talked about health kits. Flood buckets are there number three need and will be a continuing need even after the long clean up from Katrina.

Grace UMC is now a drop off point in the Corpus Christi area for health kits and flood buckets. If you or your group want to assemble either of these, you can drop them off at Grace 11222 Leopard Street. Call for more info at 361-242-3333. Since the details of the Health Kit are listed below, here is the info on the flood buckets:

A flood bucket contain the following items (all items should be new) :

5 gallon bucket with resealable lid
5 scouring pads
Bleach – two 1-quart or one 82 oz bottle
7 pack sponges
1 household cleaner, 12-16 oz bottle
1 scrub brush
Disinfectant dish soap, 16-28 oz bottle
2 pair latex gloves
18 cleaning towels (reusable wipes)
50 clothes pins
Clothes line (two 50 ft or one 100 ft)
5 dust masks
1 pair work gloves
Liquid laundry detergent (two 25 oz or one 50 oz bottle)
24 bag roll of heavy duty trash bags (33-45 gallon)
1 Insect repellant spray, 6-14 oz can (If aerosol, cans must have protective caps)
1 Air freshener, 8 or 9 oz can (If aerosol, cans must have protective caps)

In a separate envelope, please also provide $1.50 per bucket to cover distribution costs. You can make that check out to Grace UMC and we will send one check with all the kits.

Some people have asked me about the buckets themselves. Home Depot has them. The buckets can be found all over the store. The lids are in the paint department. Let me know if you have any questions.

peace,

will