Operation Photo Rescue, the charity offering free photo restoration to flood victims, is to offer its services to the victims of the floods in north west Florida of late April and early May this year.
Representatives of Operation Photos Rescue will be at the Covenant Hospice building, Pensacola (see flyer below) on September 26 and 27.
There they will have a “copy stand” with high end digital cameras set up to take digital copies of the damaged photos. Once uploaded to a secure website, the photos are put out in a gallery for volunteers from all over to restore with digital software.
To visit the copy stand, vounteer or generally find out more, visit their website here, or see our article about the valuable work done by Operation Photo here.
About the Pensacola Floods
The floods that struck in north western Florida between 28 April and 2 May 2014 were described as the worst in a generation.
Torrential rainfall – some reports say as much as 2 feet (60cm) in 24 hours – left parts of Florida suffering from flash floods and the the Santa Fe and Choctawhatchee Rivers overflowing their banks. Local media report that Pensacola, Florida, saw the heaviest rainfall in 24 hours since the 1800s. One person was killed in the flooding and hundreds of others had to be rescued across northern parts of the state.
Five inches of rain fell on Pensacola in just one hour, from 9 to 10 p.m. Tuesday 29 April 2014.
A week later Florida Governor, Rick Scott, has requested the federal government assistance. Governor Scott said that the flooding and severe weather has “caused significant damage to the businesses, homes, public infrastructure and transportation networks of the communities throughout the northern Gulf Coast region of Florida.” He continued “We must do everything we can to ensure that these families can get back on their feet, and this declaration would support those efforts,”
