My friends on R2R, words can't explain how some of our hobbyist are hit by Harvey and still we have rising water in Houston for a while.
Many ppl here on R2R know me pretty well and I have done together with many reefers here and especially the #reefsquad great things for ppl in need and always will do that.
I'm starting this thread for anyone who wants to be part of a great effort to help our hobbyist who lost their tank or had damage on their system cause of Harvey.
We started this in Houston but our Boss here @revhtree was in 100% support to spread the word on the worlds largest and most visit Reef site, David you are a GOOD SIR!!
That said I'm contacting local sponsors but I want to reach out as well to all the sponsors on R2R.
What my game plan is to raise as much as possible funds and of course any Dollar will help.
We want to organize this into a event at one of our LFS in Houston that we will raffle off equipment that is donated by the sponsors of R2R and LFS.
Money is great but a pump, light, salt, fishfood, coral pack or fish, maybe a CUC and we have one who does T-shirys on R2R here, anything will help.
Ppl who donate will get a ticket with a # and every $10 is a ticket.
We will raffle off the items donated by our sponsors, we still looking for a date of course but we need to discuss that with a LFS in Houston.
Water is still high in a lot of areas but once this will recede on us I will head out and visit out LFS and ppl that are hit, and yes I don't mind to make my way to rockport, corpus and all other cities to document how bad our fellow hobbyist are hit.
This isn't only for our friends in Houston but we have them in Corpus, Rockport, Houston, Beaumont and many more cities and towns.
They money raised will go towards a Ferrari for me and my buddy to visit those that are hit hard and tell them to hang in there LOL!!
Anybody that knows me knows also my style of jokes
Of course the funds raised is going toward our hobbyist who are hit and it will or need to used to rebuild the system when they feel like it.
If and I say if we have money left over I would like to make that public and ask everyone and each one here and on our local forum to find a cause we can donate that too.
This is costing me and my buddy a lot of time and effort to get this going I have good help from a good friend in Houston Josh @aquaman30k.and Toni @Tsev03
We still looking for volunteers that can help us to spread the word, maybe your LFS in city/town you live and their name will be announced.
I'm also working with the local media to have this broadcast, of course they have their hands full as we speak but I'm positive that I can get something going.
Pretty sure I have missed something as there is a lot going through my mind of course and my phone is already going nuts.
Hope to have a lot of support from the sponsors on here and all the members.
I'm already thankful to R2R and Team R2R for me posting this and each person who's part of R2R.
The support in the last couple of days was over whelming.
here are a few threads that was started and I must say just a word of wisdom was enough for the hobbyist that were affected by this unprecedented event from Harvey.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/texas-gulf-coast-reefers-harvey-is-coming-for-your-tanks.321995/
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/harvey.322023/
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/o...-getting-hit-pretty-hard.322824/#post-3999849
The gofundme is https://www.gofundme.com/hobbyist-helping-hobbyist for anyone who wants to donate.
If there are more please copy them in a post.
Thank you and God Bless y'all.
Ben
Many ppl here on R2R know me pretty well and I have done together with many reefers here and especially the #reefsquad great things for ppl in need and always will do that.
I'm starting this thread for anyone who wants to be part of a great effort to help our hobbyist who lost their tank or had damage on their system cause of Harvey.
We started this in Houston but our Boss here @revhtree was in 100% support to spread the word on the worlds largest and most visit Reef site, David you are a GOOD SIR!!
That said I'm contacting local sponsors but I want to reach out as well to all the sponsors on R2R.
What my game plan is to raise as much as possible funds and of course any Dollar will help.
We want to organize this into a event at one of our LFS in Houston that we will raffle off equipment that is donated by the sponsors of R2R and LFS.
Money is great but a pump, light, salt, fishfood, coral pack or fish, maybe a CUC and we have one who does T-shirys on R2R here, anything will help.
Ppl who donate will get a ticket with a # and every $10 is a ticket.
We will raffle off the items donated by our sponsors, we still looking for a date of course but we need to discuss that with a LFS in Houston.
Water is still high in a lot of areas but once this will recede on us I will head out and visit out LFS and ppl that are hit, and yes I don't mind to make my way to rockport, corpus and all other cities to document how bad our fellow hobbyist are hit.
This isn't only for our friends in Houston but we have them in Corpus, Rockport, Houston, Beaumont and many more cities and towns.
They money raised will go towards a Ferrari for me and my buddy to visit those that are hit hard and tell them to hang in there LOL!!
Anybody that knows me knows also my style of jokes
Of course the funds raised is going toward our hobbyist who are hit and it will or need to used to rebuild the system when they feel like it.
If and I say if we have money left over I would like to make that public and ask everyone and each one here and on our local forum to find a cause we can donate that too.
This is costing me and my buddy a lot of time and effort to get this going I have good help from a good friend in Houston Josh @aquaman30k.and Toni @Tsev03
We still looking for volunteers that can help us to spread the word, maybe your LFS in city/town you live and their name will be announced.
I'm also working with the local media to have this broadcast, of course they have their hands full as we speak but I'm positive that I can get something going.
Pretty sure I have missed something as there is a lot going through my mind of course and my phone is already going nuts.
Hope to have a lot of support from the sponsors on here and all the members.
I'm already thankful to R2R and Team R2R for me posting this and each person who's part of R2R.
The support in the last couple of days was over whelming.
here are a few threads that was started and I must say just a word of wisdom was enough for the hobbyist that were affected by this unprecedented event from Harvey.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/texas-gulf-coast-reefers-harvey-is-coming-for-your-tanks.321995/
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/harvey.322023/
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/o...-getting-hit-pretty-hard.322824/#post-3999849
The gofundme is https://www.gofundme.com/hobbyist-helping-hobbyist for anyone who wants to donate.
If there are more please copy them in a post.
Thank you and God Bless y'all.
Ben
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