每日社评 0717 人溺己溺 做个社区义工

人溺己溺 做个社区义工

这是我们社区遭遇到如此长时间之停电灾难，刚从国外访问回来的州长艾伯特和休斯敦市长惠特曼在记者会上公开指责中央电力设备公司之失职，他们為了公司之营利目标而牺牲了客户之利益，长久来之电线桿大部份失修而不堪一击, 这次风灾还是一级颱风就如此严重，令人难以置信。

為了表示对社区之关心,上週日中午邀集了国际区数位理事到各社区送出了七百份午餐，在许多公寓及老人中心都还没有恢復供电, 他们在无冷气空调及无新鲜食品之悪劣情况下，已经过了整整七天之久，我们的到来使他们有一份午餐和温暖。

做為全美第四大城的休斯敦，更是世界能源之都，从这次灾情看来，真是个大笑语。艾伯特州长在𡚒怒之餘,必须有所作為来解决问题，何况我们的颱风季节才刚开始。

许多小型企业及餐饮业者受灾最重，可能从此无法继续经营， 我们盼望政府及民间伸出援手。

前事不忘 ，后事之师,我们必须面对现实来解决问题。

We Delivered Lunch Boxes 

To Our Community In Need

This is the worst power outage disaster to hit our community in a long time, and maybe the worst ever. Governor Abbott and Mayor Whitmire both publicly accused CenterPoint Energy of gross negligence at a recent press conference. The company totally overlooked the best interests of their millions of customers only wanting to fill their own pockets, it was charged. The State of Texas will now investigate the whole disaster.

In order to show our concern for the community, last Sunday our International District directors, Dr. Nancy Mai and Mr. Owen Wang and my wife Catherine and I accomplished delivery of 700 lunch boxes to apartments and senior centers in our area. All of these people have been without power for all of last week.

Many small businesses and restaurants have suffered the most from the hurricane disaster because without power, they simply have to close their businesses and can only hope for survival.

We are really looking for the government to help them now.