Super Typhoon Yutu Relief

Tinian Island in the Bull’s Eye of Typhoon Yutu, Saipan in the northeast of the Bull’s Eye

How You Can Help

Red Cross https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/2018/typhoon-devastates-mariana-islands-red-cross-prepares-to-help.html

October 29, 2018

To support the more than 42,000 Americans impacted by this devastating storm, other American Red Cross lines of service, including International Disaster and Humanitarian Services and Service to the Armed Forces will also help along with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and other Red Cross National Societies experienced in providing relief services to the populations of Saipan and Tinian.

HOW YOU CAN HELP The Red Cross works 24/7 to be ready to respond to disasters like storms and countless other crises. Please donate to the Red Cross now to help. Your gift enables the Red Cross to prepare for, respond to and help people recover from disasters big and small. Visit redcross.org, call 1-800-RED CROSS or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

What we at WINKler Enterprises are doing

We are donating a portion of our sales to Typhoon Relief for the Northern Marianas.

For each of the following:

Film: The completed, full-length Irving Winkler Pacific Films (1942-1945)*  (5 hours, 9 minutes) which you buy as a download only, for $50.00, we will donate $20.00/each to Typhoon relief.

Individual photos*, which you buy as a download only at $10.00/each, we will donate $3.00/each to Typhoon relief.

The five photo sets*, which you buy as a download only at $50.00/set, we will donate $20.00/each to Typhoon relief.

The five photo sets are:

• Hawaii approx. 244 color, black & white
• Tinian approx. 320 color photos
• Tinian approx. 955 black & white
• Palmyra & Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) approx. 106 color
• Other Pacific Islands approx. 149 color

FREE with Every Purchase!  A 14-minute World War II Era Tinian Slide Show as a Download

* The Photos and the film footage is © 2017 Irving & Reba Winkler Estate Collection. All rights reserved.

The film Irving Winkler Pacific Films (1942-1945) is © 2018 Henry Benjamin Winkler. All rights reserved.

Licensed: for private study/student projects. No rights for duplication, distribution, and/or exhibition are granted or implied.

Under this license, Henry Benjamin Winkler, Betty L. Winkler, Ilona R. Winkler and affiliate persons, organizations and/or businesses will be the sole owners of all rights to these photographs, images, films and/or recordings, which may be copyrighted under his/her/their name(s).

For further descriptions of the film or slides, please see our Question & Answer sheet, or visit our Historic World War II Era Photos and Films website at: ihbwink.com

What we hear from our Friends in the Marianas

We wrote, as follows, to our contacts in the Marianas…

We hope you and your family and friends are safe sound after Typhoon Yutu.

Let us know when you get a chance.

Having to evacuate our house before it was flooded in Hurricane Agnes in 1972 when we lived in Wilkes-Barre, PA, and recently, when we were nearly evacuated in the wild fires in Santa Rosa, CA, I can emphasize with your situation.  The recovery lasts a lot longer than the emergency.  The news spotlight, and therefore, the moral support of the public outside the Northern Marianas goes away.  In these following months of recovery, let us know if there is anything you would like us to do, or any information you would like to share.

Best wishes,

H.Ben Winkler

…And received the following replies…

From Don Farrell, Author and Historian, on Tinian, November 9, 2018:

Thank you very much for your concern.

We are doing just fine, thanks to FEMA and the U.S Military.  We have running water again, and gas for our generators and cars.  The bank reopened and the government is operational, fundamentally.  No school yet.  Biggest problem is shortage of ice.  I have’t had to drink warm beer in a long time!

We will not have electricity to our houses for months.

Red Cross is on island, cooking thousands of relief meals.  The Seabees have erected tens next to houses that lost roofs.

With no electricity, it is early to bed and early to rise, which is a huge cultural shift for most of the island.

Thanks again for your concern,

Don

From Samuel Crawford, Academic Librarian / Acting Director of Library Programs and Services

Northern Marianas College, on Saipan, November 8, 2018:

Getting “back into the swing of things” at work is pretty slow-going: electricity on island is still relatively scarce, so Internet access + ability / opportunities to charge up phones, computers, etc. remain limited…  By and large, we are safe but still a bit “shaken” in the Marianas, although I must say that spirits are amazingly high among my colleagues…

The Current State of Things…

NMC suffered extensive damage, campus-wide; the tin roofs on most of the buildings were ripped into pieces, if not ripped off completely, and many offices and classrooms are/were flooded and/or damaged beyond description.  Miraculously, the Library and Archives suffered no notable loss or damage.  The collections were spared completely, and the building is currently in better shape than almost all others on campus.  Aside from 1 broken air-conditioning unit, a few damaged ceiling tiles inside (indicating leak sites that we are already discovering with this incoming rain), and the slightest of warping on parts of the floor (due to minor water seepage), our Department has come through remarkably well.

The Library is soon to become a “student relief and resource center,” in which students can come in and access a computer (IT has set up 10 additional units for us) to apply for FEMA, Red Cross assistance, etc., as well as charge their devices, seek counseling / trauma therapy, and avail of other services.

We sincerely appreciate your outreach, concern, and continued support, Ben!  Many, many thanks to you and your family!

Yours,

Sam