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Index:

This Week’s Meeting Schedule:

Insurance/Recovery Tip: ...[1992] Letters to the Therapist: If Memorials Make You Sick--Don't Go

CARe Update: ...................San Diego Personal Property Workshop Postponed

SDG&E Lawsuit Q&A: .......Sempra/SCE Lawsuit new website

Disaster Recovery: ........... Artwork symbolizes rebirth after Angora fire   

Insurance Industry: ..........Allstate settles with California insurance commissioner on homeowners' coverage

Disaster Prepared: ...........Protecting your physical photos

Disaster News: …….......... Full coverage of Metrolink crash

Quote of the week: ......… by Helen Keller

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This Week’s Meeting Schedule:

Date

Time

Topic

Location

Wednesday, Sep 24

6:30 PM

Legal Insurance Meeting with Brian Heffernan

Fallbrook Community Baptist Church - 731 S. Stagecoach Lane, Fallbrook, CA 92028 -    MAP

Saturday, Sep 27

10:00 AM

Insurance Workshop

Fallbrook Community Baptist Church - 731 S. Stagecoach Lane, Fallbrook, CA 92028 -    MAP

 

Insurance/Recovery Tip:

Letters to the Therapist: If Memorials Make You Sick--Don't Go
Sometimes fire victims have an unanticipated reaction.  See for yourself, in Letters to the Therapist: "If Memorials Make You Sick--Don't Go" written for "Therapist Column" in East Bay Journal, a newspaper from the 1991 Oakland, California Firestorm Victims.

Dear Therapist,                              

I suppose the memorials for October 20th are good for most people, but I have no glee, no joy. I only feel angry. I don't need photographs and gardens to remind me of the fire, I am living with its fury everyday. When I saw Hurricane Andrew's devastation I felt sick, I know just what those people are going through."

           -Angry

Read the answer, along with answers to several other questions, at:
http://www.c-ctherapy.org/noncog.html#ltrtotherapist

 

Other articles related to the anniversary of disasters can be found at:

A Year Ago Today: The Psychology of a Disaster's Anniversary
http://www.jmu.edu/psychologydept/anniversary.htm

The Anniversary of the Disaster: Mental Health Issues and Interventions [Acrobat Reader Required]
http://www.icisf.org/Acrobat%20Documents/anniv.pdf

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CARe Update:

San Diego Personal Property Workshop Postponed

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we had to reschedule our San Diego Personal Property Workshop from September 20 (yes that was yesterday) to October 4th. We'll remind you again when it get's closer.

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Sempra/SCE Lawsuit:

Sempra/SCE Lawsuit new website

Sempra/SCE Lawsuit, a possible class action against Southern California Edison, through Girardi & Keese, new website

Grass Fire Survivors can visit a new website for information on the new lawsuit. It's a new website, but will be growing as time goes by.

www.mountain-sb.net

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Disaster Recovery News:                   

Artwork symbolizes rebirth after Angora fire
Sep 19, 2008

More than a year ago, Ethan Niven went on a hike with his brother and two friends. The outing ended with them running for their lives.

[More HERE ]

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Insurance Industry News:                  

Allstate settles with California insurance commissioner on homeowners' coverage
August 5, 2008

California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has quietly dropped an effort to seek refunds for Allstate Corp. policyholders who might have paid too much for their homeowners' coverage in recent years. Critics immediately denounced his decision.

[more HERE]

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Disaster Prepared:

Protecting your physical photos

Have you ever wondered how you would ever get all of those old photos scanned? This Southern California company will scan an entire box of photos for one low price!

[CARe provides this link for informational purposes only. We have no affiliation with this company.]

http://www.scanmyphotos.com

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Disaster News:                          

Full coverage of Metrolink crash

This special section of the LA Times has links to all of the stories they wrote on the crash.

[more HERE]

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Quote of the Week:                   

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.  Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

      -Helen Keller

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