Mike's original home needs help!

Received from Rob Craig:

Greetings from Great Cats of Indiana!

A problem has developed at our compound, and I am contacting you to fill you in on what has happened and how we are trying to correct it.
In the early morning hours of June 20th, our facility was hit by a powerful storm that blew up our electric meter, feed lines and all attached hardware when lightening hit a power pole in front of our property. This storm also contained 70+ mph winds that tore off and damaged portions of the roofs on four of our barns. The repairs to our electrical service cost us $800 dollars, and we have been told that the estimates to repair our barn roofs will be around $ 4,000 dollars.
Frankly, we don’t have the funds to cover this. Donations this past year have been lower than ever before, and the offsite work that we do to cover our expenses gets us by each month, but like many facilities like ours, we don’t have an emergency fund or anything set aside to cover events like this.
We truly appreciate our supporters, and we appreciate everyone who helps us keep doing our work. We depend on you and couldn’t keep providing for these animals without your help.
Now I need to turn to you again and ask for your help to raise the almost $5000 dollars that we need to repair our barns. These buildings are older buildings, and the damaged roofs will lead to serious structural damage if we don’t get them repaired quickly. These are the barns that provide shelter for our animals and the equipment we need to care for them. Repairing them before too many more storms hit is important.
Please consider a donation to help us start repairing our buildings. Any contribution you can provide would be appreciated and would help raise the funds we need. All contributions are tax deductible, and we can provide a written receipt for tax purposes if you need one. Please click on Make A Donation link on this page:

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On behalf of the animals that call our facility home, I want to personally thank you in advance for your continued generosity and ongoing support. Thank you for helping us continue to provide for the animals in our care.
Sincerely,
Rob Craig, Executive Director
Great Cats of Indiana

One last thing: All of the animals (and the 2 people) that were here when the storm hit made it through the storm just fine.