Community Urged To Donate Blood Amid Severe Shortage In Texas

This year has been tough on the blood supply in the Texas panhandle. Coffee Memorial Blood Center in Amarillo, issued a news release earlier today detailing how desperate the situation really is. According to them, there is an incredible need for the community to step up.

Why Is The Blood Supply So Low In Texas Panhandle?

According to the news release from Coffee Memorial Blood Center, there's more than one reason for the current blood shortage. Reasons for the current shortage include:

Bad Weather
Widespread Illness
Technical Disruptions

It's not just in Amarillo and the Texas panhandle. There are shortages all over the country at the moment. Usually, blood centers can rely on each other when there are shortages. That's not the case at the moment.

They also point out that we're in the middle of one of the worst flu seasons in 15 years. As you might be able to guess, you can't donate blood when you're fighting off the flu.

What Can We Do To Fix The Current Blood Shortage?

Coffee Memorial Blood Center is urging all eligible donors to make an appointment to donate. Blood donations are used in the care of cancer patients, trauma victims, burn survivors, mothers giving birth, and an array of life-threatening conditions.

If you are healthy and at least 16 years old, you are eligible to donate. It usually takes an hour to complete a donation, and your donation can potentially save three lives. To make your appointment, schedule one online by following this link. Walk-ins are also accepted at the Coffee Memorial Blood Center in Amarillo at 7500 Wallace Blvd.

Google Answers the Top 10 Questions About Amarillo

I love Google. It can literally answer ANYTHING you need it to answer. Whether it's right or wrong is a totally different question.

Recently, I found myself wondering about something and went to Google. And that's when I started noticing the "people also asked..." section and BOY...Some of them made perfect sense, some of them were interesting, and one of them was downright baffling...and it was a top 10 question which is even more absurd.

So let's see what we've got. Here's the top 10 questions as asked to Google about Amarillo.

Gallery Credit: Sarah Clark

Can You Guess These Towns From Their Satellite Photos?

I'm always down for a good brain challenge. This one however got the best of me.

It's always a fun time looking up address or cities and seeing them from a satellite point of view. You start pointing out landmarks and things you recognize.

One thing you don't account for however is something looking bigger or smaller than you seemed to think it was. So we started grabbing a bunch of these satellite pictures of cities and towns around Amarillo.

As we looked at them, we thought to ourselves, "how fun would this be to actually have to GUESS what these places are?". So away we went.

Go ahead and try to see how many you can guess correctly!

Gallery Credit: Sarah Clark