Raines is the volunteers and donations coordinator for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, working with nonprofits, volunteer organizations and faith-based groups in bringing aid to disaster victims. How has 2011 compared to other years in terms of the need for weather-related emergency response?
For us in Virginia, it’s been quite some time since we’ve had as significant an event as what we’ve had this year with the series of four events [tornadoes, two tropical storms and an earthquake]. The accumulation of all of those have been very much out of the norm for us. Really it’s been since [Tropical Storm] Isabel in 2003 that we’ve had anything this significant come through.
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