x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by sc.lmhostediq.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 6 Oct 2016 07:13:43 -0400 thread-index: AdIfwrLQAcu0KplGRFSSiMk4Ss0YTA== Thread-Topic: A thank you note - Seriously!! From: To: Subject: A thank you note - Seriously!! Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 07:13:43 -0400 Message-ID: <7C19DABCAF0F4C078F8221A418A806C8@IQ12> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Oct 2016 11:13:43.0335 (UTC) FILETIME=[B2EFEB70:01D21FC2] CUSTOM Mrs. Sherry Whisnant Mom and Teacher 3689 Highway 66 Loris SC 29569 slwhisn1@coastal.edu 843-333-2224 GOVE A thank you note - Seriously!! 64.138.224.178 October 6th, 2016 Dear Governor Haley, I felt that even though you may never read this that I should still write it and YES, I will be posting it to Facebook. I am however, using WORD to be sure the spelling is correct.LOL. I wanted to thank you for taking your job seriously. Though we, even I, may not agree with everything our political leaders do or the decisions they make, I want to thank you for your decisions this week concerning Hurricane Matthew. Many people, including myself - a public school teacher and parent - have thought about the time seemingly wasted from the days of waiting. The kids could be in school, we are going to have to make these up, they are going to take our break, it is messing up my work schedule, I am having to find day care.etc. Many business owners are concerned with loss of revenue due to workers not coming in or people not shopping (beside the run on milk and bread, which I never have understood). Some have even criticized you for inciting panic by evacuating people too early, or maybe without real need due to the storms ever-changing track. But, we all need to stop and think for a minute. Not about the destruction from Hazel or Hugo, but the destruction from a MAJOR storm such as Katrina. Have we really forgotten. And as a side note, as we sit in our padded chairs in front of our satellite TV's eating the plethora of Chef-boy-ardee and Little Debbies as we complain, we forget that people in Haiti, even in modern time, had no real warning on a mass scale and eve if they did, no resources to move anywhere. Thank you for thinking about the "What-if's" far enough in advance to help subside panic. Thank you for thinking about how to allow families to not only secure their homesteads, but to have enough time to help neighbors and family members. Thank you for thinking about all of our tourist friends along our beautiful coast lines. Thank you for thinking of the thousands of homeless families who live in the motels, tent cities, shelters, on the streets or in their cars. Thank you for thinking about the residents in your poverty stricken state who live in homes which lack the ability to with stand a Category 2 storm much less a 4. Thank you for allowing business owners, though they may lose revenue now, to have the time to secure their livelihoods for not only the possible destructive force of nature, but the destructive and ignorant behavior of the human element during the aftermath of such incidents. Thank you for allowing time to consider the students from faraway places who could not just at the drop of a hat move somewhere for safety and providing the universities time to help one another such a CCU and Clemson. Thank you for allowing time for those who care for other lives beside human lives time to think and coordinate with other shelters to place animals in, farmers more time to secure livestock, more time for families to secure their fur friends. Thank you for thinking ahead and using your state resources to help move people safely with enough time to think and plan. Thank you for thinking of those individuals who need to be moved but cannot move themselves or have the families to do so such as nursing home and hospital patients. Thank you for allowing enough time to coordinate the relocation of people who cannot just be placed in a regular shelter even temporarily due to dialysis, cancer, trauma, mobility, life support - young and old. AS I prepared to spend another gorgeous day outside doing some of the things I can't due to my profession as a teacher, I just wanted you to know that I appreciate the fact that you didn't think of the few who would have been okay regardless of the storm, its size and impact. But rather you compassionately thought about all of your 4.5 million or more residents. Though people will STILL complain over loss of revenue, state spending during this time, and the seemingly wasted time and we sit and wait.I thank you for being a leader willing to take those comments while recognizing your responsibility to for the education, safety, security, health, well-being and overall success of each South Carolinian whether permanent friends or visiting. Money can be re-earned, stuff can be replaced, even time can be made up in certain aspects. But lives lost cannot be undone. Thank you for doing your job the best way you know how to do it. Sincerely, A wife, daughter, mom, and educator Sherry Whisnant, Loris S.C.