Earthquake Damage
 

Money where it needs to be
 

This is the big challenge in a catastrophic event like this...how to get money direct to where it needs to be. Thanks Steve, I've sent some money your way. I know you'll get it to the pointy end.

Hello VF,

I have visited this thread since you started it, almost on a daily basis, to enjoy the "perfect marriage" of helicopters+mountains in your well-known "WOW" pictures. You definitely have my respect for your piloting and photography skills.

I have just added a small donation to your fund to thank you for the wonderful views of Nepal and as a gesture of sympathy to the great Nepali people in this difficult time.

Ciao,

aerolearner

@VF - A big :D:D:D for your effort to help. I hope my small contribution will ease the pain a bit. It will not be easy to for you to take the decisions, how to allocate the funds. May I suggest to stay in your neighborhood first? Makes it easier to justify.
All the best to you and I hope you may soon start showing more optimistic pictures of a wonderful country.
All the best.
And remember the old song - Always look on the bright side of life.

All,

I think we all (some secretly) love and aspire to VF/Steve's work. Whether you admire what he does in his manipulation of the machine in the upper part of the RFM graph, his photography, his sharing of the experience, his promotion of the capabilities of any of the AS350x family, his commitment to sticking the tail rotor wherever anyone isn't .... we get it. And to see the rescuer almost need rescuing is at the very least sobering, as it could happen to any of us.

I know Steve has been doing it tough the last week or so. Fortunately he is a vegetarian so has done quite well on spring water and weeds. ;) But he has done it not just without complaining, but with an eye to helping the people he has met every week, the people he knows need help, the people that have little profile or advocacy, the people in the the rural regions of Nepal who are at the ragged edge of community collapse when their binding infrastructure literally falls down around them.

It is the direct action of Steve and his wife Dolma Sherpini, that will make a difference. Hence his fund.

Cheers,

Pete

Put in my small contribution this morning and shared the link in facebook.

epicentre
 

VF and all,


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...425.medium.jpg

lucky Kathmandu was not at the epicentre

DoT

prescient....
 

a couple of interesting links:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sci...uake-nightmare

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sci...e-not-yet-over

Dot

4th Report - Nepal Earthquake
 

Hey MikeJulietHotel, thank You Brother, we are excited that in a small way we can give hope with a new home, at least to a few.
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Bless You aerolearner
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Bless You too Rotorbee, I Liove that song - 'always look on the bright side of Life' ;)
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WoW Peter3127 thanks Brother, what can I say; Big Hug & the show must go ON! :ok:
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Good onya krohmie many thanks.
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Yikes DoT, I have seen KTM was not the epicenter, there around the epicenter - NOTHING is standing :{ nothing
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Many, many thanks to Your thoughtful, heartfelt caring...Om
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Tanky duties
 

My BeLoved Wife cleans our water tanks as we have no water :ooh:
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Mother Earth's destructive force
 

Spark Health Hospital (Ayurvedic Natural Health centre)
 

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Our Kitchen on the day
 

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the Earth sure did move here, but thankfully our Home was spared from any damage.
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Kathmandu - Nepal
 

5th Earthquake Report
 

Day 9, Earthquakes continue, but with less frequency. First few days it was 3 or 4 per hour, now it's every 3 or 4 hours there's ONE, sometimes up to 6.6, so sadly weakened building are still collapsing......when the earth moves like this; it is truly FRIGHTENING
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Dear VF,
have spread the word about your noble fund raising action
on some dedicated groups.
Hope for the best, for you and the people, affected by our mother nature :ok:

Little donation from Dorset, UK winging its way to you all in Nepal. Thinking of you guys and realise how fortunate I was to have a 45 year career flying helicopters without having to face what you have had to

TC

Donated
 

Well done VF. Glad I am able to help in a small way.

It's nice to see the money going directly where it's needed too. :D

John

VF,

Thanks for your valiant effort. Your are a great ambassador for our profession.

HS

All the best to you, Steve! :ok: