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In ex finestris de caelis coram deo veniat ut maximus damnum discipulae discessit.

Rob Gryfft, in Grapevine, Texas. Yesterday represented the Seventh Column along with Columnist Yowel Fai1 at the local fire station, organizing donated goods into boxes, putting them on pallets and loading them on semi's to send them off to Louisiana. The generosity of people is amazing-- we had literally a truckload of diapers alone. Then, the boxes and pallets full of blankets, water, food, clothing... Not to mention the local donut and pizza places, who sent over literally about twice as much food as the volunteers could eat. That's the first time I've ever seen that much leftover pizza.... and somehow I was already full... any 16-year old Halo player's nightmare, right? Soo much pizza, such a small stomach... heh. So, Yowe1 and I together got in about 10 man-hours, along with all the hardworking non-Columnists who helped out. Today I served Mass at the Hilton that has put up several hundred refugees. Haven't yet bought the T-Shirt, limited as my resources are, but I may wind up buying the T-shirt for the lady-friend, though she may not really understand it... heh. Maybe two or three families have the necessities they need now, thanks to the efforts of two 16-year old Seventh Columnists. Bungie, continue to spread the message! Seventh Columnists, unite against the Flood! Oh, sorry, I meant the flood...
:-\ Victims of the disaster, my prayers are with you.

  • 09.04.2005 10:05 PM PDT
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They didn't build it six feet below. The group eventually sank. I am not trying to be rude, but bone up on your history before saying things like that

  • 09.05.2005 2:06 AM PDT
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From the UK:
Our thoughts are with you all, me and my family as well as many others I know are donating as much as possible to help those in need. The best of luck to those affected in these bad times, and a big thank you to Bungie for pulling the Halo 2 community together in support. You guys are great!

  • 09.05.2005 6:18 AM PDT
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As the message prior to this one so rightly pointed out, our hearts and thoughts are with you all in the UK. Those of us from London as well as the rest of the country, have dealt with such devastation on a similar level but different context this summer, with the events of the London Bombings. You guys were extremely supportive during these herendous events, and we are all very appreciative of the messages of condolences. The roles have no reversed and on behalf of the rest of the UK, may I just say that we will be all thinking of those who sadly have got caught up in the natural disaster, many of whom are still suffering. We will do our very best to contribute to the relief efforts by purchasing these t-shirts, as well as doing whatever else we can to help those in need. At times like this, its nice to see how everybody unites together and helps one another out. Carry on with the good work, and all the best to those in New Orleans.

On behalf of myself and the rest of the UK, take care of yourselves, and god bless you all.

Joe P

  • 09.05.2005 7:13 AM PDT
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Condolences for yours victim Americans, my government have send help.

  • 09.05.2005 8:51 AM PDT
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I bought the T-Shirt that Bungie has created. Not only do I love the humor "Fight the Flood" but its for a helluva good cause. I told all my friends at school to get shirts too and some are totally getting them. What happend with Hurricane Katrina just blows my mind away. So many people affected. My heart goes out to them.

  • 09.05.2005 11:38 AM PDT

Psalm 62:1-2
My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

Posted by: Spartan 232
The "meaning" of freedom today is, Doing whatever you want. The true meaning is, Doing what you know is right, and having the freedom to do so.

I have one question about the T-shirt: Is it some sort of pun or something? Cuz it says "Fight The Flood!" and it's flooding in the Hurricane area. I was just curious. Everyone, please remember all those affected by the Hurricane in your Prayers.
GREAT JOB BUNGIE!!
EDIT: I just ordered one of the shirts, and I can't wait for it to come in!!!

[Edited on 9/6/2005]

  • 09.05.2005 1:02 PM PDT
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the thing you see master cheif kicking is the parisite called the flood....which is like master cheif kick the flood out...one of those weird i-can't-think-of-the-name-things. And i am really proud of the bungie community...a whole bunch of people that usally can't agree on anything can come toghter and agree on something....it's really cool.

  • 09.05.2005 1:07 PM PDT
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Yea, Its called a Pun, Meaning that it can be viewed two different ways, as in, if you didn't know about the flood in Louisiana, its MC killing a Flood. But for those of us that have bought it for the relief, it means that we want to combat the flood in louisiana. By the way Shishka, thanks for deleting most of my post!!!

  • 09.05.2005 2:44 PM PDT
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I am personally discusted with the loss of life from Katrina. all Governments from federal to the local city gov't knew that those levies would not hold swells from anything more than a category 3, This event was not like 9-11, people knew that if a large storm came New Orleans would be a bath tube, Even Popular Science named New Orleans the largest disaster site in the US, In the midst of all this I find myself asking...WHY?

Although I must thank everyone of you for helping and providing support to citizens despartly in need of supplies. This shows what type of people you are as well as who gamers are. Thank you Bungie

  • 09.05.2005 5:11 PM PDT
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i think we should do something just for the kids. im sure there are alot of Halo 2 players(or just videogame players in general) that are stuck without nothing to play. We should organize a massive LAN party for them. i would be willing to go and help in any way i can. Just think how you would feel if your Xbox was taken away and you probably would never get it back. I could bring all my stuff somewhere as long as i would have a place to stay. i have an Xbox(probably could get more), 3 controllers(could also get more of those), and at least 3 routers. if anybody wants to help me get this going e-mail me at [email]nashscudarules@hotmail.com[/email]. i'll try to get back to you as soon as possible. also contact me through this site(although im not on here that often), or send me a message at www.redvsblue.com. my name there is Scauer07 and my gamertag on XBL is the same. Hopefully i get alont of people involved. i will post this on other forums too to get ppl involved

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  • 09.05.2005 5:42 PM PDT
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This truely is one of the worst things ever to happen to our nation. and the truth is it has to get worse before it gets beter. thousands of homes destroyed and just as many people with no where to go. Even if you cant donate much it greatly helps. I also want to add how freaking awsome those t-shirts are, thats gunna earn some cash. they look good, the logo is funny and it sure beats a red cross tote bag. the thing about all of this that really angers me is that instead of thinking where to go next officials are out there playing th blame game. there is pleanty of time for polotical mud slinging later, this is one of those times when i really wish that people could cast aside differences. My mothers best friend is going down to help out with the red cross, i wish her safe return, and for the rebirth of the south.
Thank you Bungie, you are helping make life for those people beter.

and also people flamming or spamming this thread need to get banned from this web site and dragged by the earlobes down there to help by a Spartan clone and some very angry howler monkeys.

  • 09.06.2005 1:37 AM PDT
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I plan to buy the shirt as soon as i get home tonight (high school sucks) but i had this great idea...if you buy a t-shirt and youre a member of the bungie website (ie for xbox live) we should have the option of putting something behind our gamertag like the "Bungie.net" logo thinger...but thats just me

  • 09.06.2005 7:41 AM PDT
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That would be cool, kinda like a thing that says "I helped fight the flood" or something like that. It would also help spread the word about the shirts.

  • 09.06.2005 9:53 AM PDT
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I just had an amazing idea, I don’t know if anyone has already said this or not, but Bungie should contact g4 tv4 gamers and advertise for the Red Cross and their t-shirts and what not, attack of the show has a huge audience. As Recon said, or at least I think it was recon, this is also a huge chance to destroy the stereotypes surrounding our community with everyone’s minds working together we can think of a great idea(s) the good news is they got that levy plugged, which is amazing. I’m hearing power is being restored now, again great. If there are any ninjas still around could you please pm me with ways other than just donating resources like blood or money, or volunteering that I can help. And also if there is anyway I can help Bungie, anything Please let me know.
edited for grammer

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  • 09.06.2005 10:09 AM PDT
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im from winters, texas (a speck on the map) but my ex-girlfreind was there when katrina hit. her mom said she made it out okay, but i havent heard from her since. i just want to say , to everyone working for bungie, you guys have already done so much, and yet your still doing more. thank you!

running and hiding would be your best bet.

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  • 09.06.2005 11:14 AM PDT
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This is the way the world ends? Well screw that!

Everytime I change the channel to CNN or Fox my heart sinks. I finnaly got internet connection today and the first thing I did was order some fight the flood shirts. Im gana be giving blood very soon. It feels so good to actually help those that do not have access to the internet, cars, homes, food, water or families. Its totaly sweet to hear what you guys are doing to help and to hear that what were doing is actually helping those who are suffering. I cant even imagine what it must be like for those people. Its gata be waaayyyy worse then getting pwned at Halo 2 by some 10 year old. Maybe some of the money I give will help some of those who live in my homestate of Alabama. Im just glad that I could get off of my ass and help.

The support that Bungie and the community are giving to victims completly overwhelms me with pride and makes me more than proud to be a fan and an American. Thankyou Bungie and everybody else for your awesomeness.

"Sometimes world domination comes in the form of a helping hand"

  • 09.07.2005 12:08 AM PDT
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I may have not been at the coastal area myself in person, but I was caught in the tail end of it. I live in Central Mississippi, and I just want you guys to remember alot of us as well. The storm destroyed (raped to be correct.) many homes here as well. My home caught only a small amount of it, but a tree took out one of my close friend's homes. Many more lost vehicles received major roof damage, and a whole plethora of other damages.

I spent alot of time in Biloxi and neighboring cities here in MS. and I will miss going there greatly for the time they spend rebuilding. If I were not in college at the moment I would be there working my ass off using what construction skills I posses. One of the greatest things about Biloxi was Coast Con, a gaming, Anime, and Roleplay convention held there around the beginning of April or the end of March every year. Those memories will remain with me for many years to come.

One of the major consequences of losing the ports on our coastline is the lack of gasoline shipments. It has been madness here for the past week. So many people have come from out of state and locally and taken all the gas they could hold, not taking into consideration those of us whom have to go back and forth all of the time. It's not that it angers me, but that it is foolish to take advantage of having so much money. In given time shipments are coming, they just have to get enough vehicles.

As of New Orleans, it breaks my heart to see and hear about what happened. I also enjoyed visiting there, not just for the drinking and partying for I am guilty of it, but more for the culture, and the art. One thing that amazed me the most was the cemetaries. Their architectural (forgive the spelling errors, for I just woke up from a nap.) designs amazed me. However in due time New Orleans, Biloxi, Gulfport, and the other areas decimated will be rebuilt, but, they will never be as they were. All we can do is hope and pray for the best. We all should do what we can to help, be it go and help clean up, rebuild, donate funds, even buy that really awsome shirt. I am most deffinitely getting myself one when I get paid for my work-study job. Just do us a favor, don't forget those of us who were affected here in the upper regions, we may not have lost our cities, but we did get a pretty bad peice of the pie.

  • 09.07.2005 11:46 AM PDT
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Thats -blam!-in down right low Ive lost family in that -blam!- and your just gonna make a little animated cartoon showing your -blam!- disrespect for louisiana you should be -blam!-in slapped in the -blam!-in face a thousand times over


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  • 09.07.2005 12:47 PM PDT

Yeah, we here in College Station, TX have taken in about a thousand evacuees. We will be making a thousand spots open for students to come to Texas A&M. Its really great to see the Spirit of Aggieland shine so well. When I went to Reed Arena last nite there were almost as many volunteers (mainly students like myself) as there were evacuees. Its really great and I would suggest to anyone and everyone to go volunteer if you have the chance its such a great feeling knowing you are helping makes these people's transition to a new life that much easier.

  • 09.07.2005 12:49 PM PDT
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Evryone here is a recommendation for those of you who use msn instant messanger change your username and change it too For "New Orleans" and put a picture of a red rose to show that you care about those poor people!!!! They need support people need to care about htis this is one way too show that you'r heart goes out too them.

  • 09.07.2005 6:17 PM PDT
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So ive been reading this board off and on and deciding wether to post this or not. Its hard for me to grip with the fact of this story but I figure if I post it maybe it will help me.

Over the summer one of my best friends moved to Biloxi. When I first found out where he was going to live and I heard about Biloxi I was excited for him. As he moved away he was going to live on base at Fort Keesler since his farther was an anestegeologist for the army. I heard from him periodically over the summer and checked in on how he was doing and so forth. As I heard of Katrini I hoped that it would weaken and not come close to Biloxi. When I heard it hit New Orleans I heard that Biloxi got the "bad side" of the storm. I was worried to death. I watched the news all week until I heard any news from Biloxi. Thats when I saw it on CNN. They were reporting from Fort Keesler and they were saying the base was totally destroyed. I have not heard anything from him at all since the hurricane hit. I ahvve checked all sorts of web sites that have listed refugies. All i can hope for is the best. Im almost sure he got out since the military would of probably evacuated the base and if not my friend his mom and hos three brothers/sisters would of probably left, or atleast I hope so.His dad is probably some where along the coast helping out as a doctor. All I can hope for is the best for everyone.

God Bless All

  • 09.07.2005 7:43 PM PDT
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Has anybody had any problems with the Bungie store as of recently? I've been trying to order that shirt since last night, and the site, at first, wouldn't proceed to the "order confirmation" page. Now it won't load, period.

  • 09.08.2005 2:59 AM PDT