We're part of an experiment called Strong Angel III, the third in a series of collaborations among many different organizations -- government, nonprofit, corporate and citizen-based -- to improve responses to disasters. You can learn more at the Strong Angel website:
http://www.strongangel3.net
and we hope you'll take a look.
This "Flash Mob" was designed to see whether we could mobilize people like all of us, in a disaster, to help each other get food.
We're not sure how you got the word. But we told people, via many different methods of communication, that we hoped they might bring food in a can, bottle or bag to a location in downtown San Diego or near "the Pyramid" on Thursday at noon. For exact instructions about the time and location, we asked them to text the word "soup" to a short message number -- 35842 -- by 11 a.m. today.
Here are the locations:
-- Downtown San Diego: Broadway/Broadway Circle, near NBC
-- The Pyramid: Carroll Rd/Miramar Rd
If you can't come, please pass this message along.
If you are reading this, you brought some food, and needy people thank you. So do we, because you have helped prove the power of all of us to help each other.
If you have a blog, we hope you might tell others about this experiment. Please use the Technorati tag "strongangel3" on your posts:
Thanks for helping. In a real emergency, this would have been powerful stuff.
