Many celebrities and businesses donate to aid hurricane relief, both in Sacramento and all across the nation. After Hurricane Harvey struck Texas, professional football player and the star of the Houston Texans, J.J. Watt, started a funding page to help with relief efforts for the hurricane. At first his goal was to reach five million dollars, but his fund currently stands above thirty million dollars, and that number continues to grow. His fund triggered a chain reaction of donations from celebrities.
Along with many donations from celebrities, many companies are also greatly helping the relief efforts. Walmart is matching every dollar raised by the Red Cross. Tech giant Apple announced that they will donate 5 million dollars,and Texas billionaire Michael Dell has pledged 36 million dollars.
Sacramento is also getting involved in the recovery efforts towards the hurricanes through the CBS13 Hurricane Harvey Relief Fundraiser. The Sacramento restaurant and sushi bar “Mikuni” is also offering customers a way to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey. They’ll be donating 100 percent of sales of their special “Rescue Roll” towards relief efforts.
The NBA and Sacramento Kings have teamed up with the American Red Cross to help raise money for Hurricane Relief in Houston. Kings players De’Aaron Fox and Justin Jackson are both from Texas, and lived in or around Houston. According to CBS 13 Sacramento, the players are very happy about the partnership and want to do as much as they can to help as many people as possible.
The Sacramento Fire Department has also contributed to the local relief effort. The Department announced this aid effort on Aug. 27, and the Sacramento Fire Department has since sent a team of 14 water rescue officers from their Search and Rescue Team to Hurricane Harvey. The crew will drive 2,000 miles to Texas to help with the rescue for flooded houses for victims of the storm.
Recently, the hurricane relief company Hand in Hand has raised a substantial amount of money. It raised more than $44 million for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Tuesday night, according to ABC news. A total of $14 million was raised during the live show on Monday, with $30 million donated after the show ended as many celebrities added donations to the Hand and Hand fund, lots of people across America showed their support for both Hurricane recovery.
It seems that even when terrible natural disasters strike America, everybody can still come together and help somebody that they don’t know. If every person that was affected by these events can recover and try to go back to their lives before that would be great but that probably won’t happen. Everyone who experienced these events needs to come together and stay strong and this Nation can move on as a whole.
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