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Edited by KeysCrazy: 9/3/2017 5:08:55 AM
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Keys_Crazy and Guardians of Harvey Relief (Community Focus Suggestion)

​I ​​wanted to tell Bungie a story and let it stand as a reminder to all guardians. My name is KeysCrazy on PSN (Keys_Crazy). I am sitting here in my office chair in my home after a 17-hour drive. It's a chair that I've sat in playing Destiny so many times over so many hours. Usually, I sit in this chair to relax, decompress and plug into the world of video games and out of the world of man. However, tonight it is my fellow man that I want to tell you about. Please bear with me and keep reading because it's important. Why did I have a 17-hour drive? I was driving home from a week of hurricane Harvey relief efforts staged out of a little place called Rosenberg, TX. On Monday a team of 132 specialized agents from my agency deployed from western Texas with a convoy of Riverine Shallow Draft Vessels, Airboats, Search and Rescue Swiftwater EMTs, and fuel and maintenance personnel to a Forward Operating Base supporting FEMA rescue efforts. Our task force was to provide critical life saving to the victims of Hurricane Harvey. It was a week of unfathomable hardship and unbelievable heroism. I'm sure you've all been depressed enough from news and media and are at your limits hearing about it so I won't dwell on the horrors except to say that our team of 132 people and 37 vessels performed 524 rescues, saves 536 humans, and 66 animals in just under 3 days. We operated round the clock covering an area of 120 miles from Lake Charles and Beaumont to the east, Woodville and College Station to the north, Bay City to the south, and La Grange to the west. We were in the "heavy" zone. We saved as many as we could, not all, but as many as we could and we never stopped. In the middle of all this the families we saved started to bring us food, set up BBQ's and chow wagons, and take care of us. It was amazing. At one point a very surreal thing happened. A young teenaged boy, came in with a PS4 and set it up for the rescuers to use in the down time between shifts. When he turned it on and logged in, I noticed the game boxes for both Destiny and Destiny 2 beta. I casually mentioned that I'd been playing Destiny since release and was looking forward to Destiny 2. I told him that I had conquered the inverted spire with all three classes in the beta myself and to look me up for a fireteam after launch. Sure enough, a few of the other guys mentioned they played Destiny also. It was crazy, here we were, Guardians in a real fire team. In our group of 132, there were about a dozen of us Guardians in the fight. As strange as this sounds, the events reminded me of the homecoming trailer and my beta play through. A group of Guardians fighting on their home turf to save as many as they can and push back the onslaught until everyone can get out. No, mother nature is not Ghaul, some giant Cabal General but she did kick the crap out of a lot of our homes and remind us all of what loss and mortality feels like. Our fire teams were fighting street to street to save lives quite literally. One of our teams' own mother and sister were trapped without water and power in Beaumont for two days before we could get to them. I wanted to remind all guardians that we gamers are real people and just like the game, when trouble calls we come to the aid of our fellow man. Please, if you can donate a dollar of your money or an hour of your time, get the Destiny pin from the Bungie store. Everything helps. I will try to download some video from the helicopters and boats when I get some sleep and post a few links for anyone that wants to see some first-hand footage of the devastation. Send me a friend request or join me in a fireteam and I will tell anyone that wants to listen all about it. Have a good night all.

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