The typhoon that flooded the Philippines almost a month ago has faded from the headlines, but one Austinite is still working to generate hope and financial relief for the storm victims.
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KVUE's Jim Bergamo reports.
>Former Dell employee Greg Patrick recently started a website for victims of the typhoon called He set a modest goal of $500 dollars. So far the website has exceeded that raising $1,000 dollars and Patrick is hoping for more since many of the Filipino storm victims he knows so well have lost so much.
When typhoon Ondoy hit Manila, Philippines three weeks ago, Greg Patrick was on a different island about 8,000 miles away in Galveston.
"So I went on Facebook and I saw that all my Filipino friends had left all kinds of posts like I am stranded," Greg Patrick said.
While working for Dell, Patrick would visit the Philippines often as he helped establish the computer giant's call center in Manila.
"I don't know if I would have gotten this involved without personally seeing on Facebook my friends write these messages that water is chest high in their houses," Patrick said.
Those posts and the YouTube tribute video below touched Patrick so much he created a website to raise funds for the victims of the typhoon.
