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DISASTER RELIEF ORGANIZATION BULLETIN 9.09.08

CONSORTIUM MEDIA SERVICES

TINA VERVOORN

805-983-3495 X117

PR@CONSORTIUM-MEDIA.COM

PODS® responds to severe weather situations

CLEARWATER, FLORIDA – As the Gulf and East Coasts and surrounding states continue to be affected by severe weather patterns, portable moving and storage firm PODS is on stand-by to serve relief agencies and communities in need of assistance.

·         PODS containers are constructed of a steel frame with specially designed aluminum skin panels

·         Container load capacity: more than three tons, tested to withstand 110-mph winds when partially filled.

·         PODS streamlines mobilization of portable storage during emergency situations or disasters to assist personnel in recovery and relief efforts.

·         PODS Rapid Response Team specializes in handling emergency disaster situations and is familiar in working with early responders

·         PODS containers are portable to serve when and where needed most as relief, recovery and rebuild effort priorities shift

PODS is ready to help in the aftermath of Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike. The company is a frequent early respondent to emergency situations, most recently dispatching 160 PODS containers to the Midwest region of the U.S. to assist in recovery efforts during the Iowa flooding, and delivering thousands of containers to emergency personnel in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

The PODS Call Center telephone number is: 800-776-7637, or visit pods.com.

About PODS

In 1998, PODS revolutionized the moving and storage industry by originating the concept of transporting mobile storage containers. The convenient, cost-effective service is unique in that the patented hydraulic lift system (only available with PODS) is designed to significantly reduce shift in contents while the PODS brand container is being loaded onto the truck for transport. The container is then securely transported locally, state to state or internationally.

Currently, the PODS network provides service to a population of over 230 million consumers and businesses in 48 US states and throughout Canada and Australia. To date, approximately one million reservations have been completed, there are over 135,000 PODS containers in service, and PODS has performed approximately 150,000 long-distance relocations.