LEGO for Tornado victims

[Sir E Fullner]

A little over a month ago, the village of Pilger, Nebraska (down the road from my home town) was brutally hit by an EF-4 tornado system. The whole town was utterly decimated, comparable to the allied blitz of Dresden. Several homes and businesses were destroyed, along with the middle school I attended.

Pilger, however, was not the only point of destruction for the "[sic] two fingers of God tearing a path of destruction" (phrase used by my English teacher). Several farms, both big and small, were pulled up like pawns of a chess set. My uncle's house was just scraped on the nose, but his neighbor's farm was completely demolished.

Even with all of the devastation and despair, there was nothing stopping hard-working Nebraskans from pulling together and giving a helping hand. For the first two weeks after the tornado, the high school in my home town was packed with volunteers as plentiful as fish in the sea, and enough bottles of water were donated that they could keep the oases of the Sahara irrigated for the next 300 years. The only surviving Lutheran Church in Pilger opened up a coffee shop in the basement for people to chat and enjoy a good hot cup before doing work, and my English teacher pulled together a speech festival at the high school.

One point that I would like to bring up, though, is one that came to me today. As I was driving home from helping my grandmother, I happened to notice two children operating a lemonade booth next to the local swimming pool. At a close glance, they were selling lemonade in order to buy new LEGO to replace the collection that one had lost in the tornado. I happened to pull together a box of bricks that I don't need or don't use, but I could not help but think of all of the other boys and girls who had lost their favorite LEGO sets in the horrible tornado.

This is why I think it would be a great idea to pull together and donate some of our AFOLs' vast collections to donate to the area tornado victims. If you have any ideas, please feel free to comment below.

Always entertaining, always inspiring, always:

[CrazyDalton777]

Maybe organise a LEGO event nearby for people to bring along models that can be displayed, there could be a box at various places for people to put sets to donate in. You could have shops set up that sell LEGO and maybe some building workshops for children. The entry fee could be something like 10$ (I live in the UK so I don't know if its high enough or what) and maybe a requirement that people bring at least 1 LEGO set along (could be small or big) to give away? Sorry if this sounds a bit weird, maybe a local company could "donate" a venue?