Shigeki Terashi, President and Chief Operating Officer of Toyota Motor North America said, "On behalf of Toyota, we express deep condolences to the families affected by the storm (Sandy). We have a number of facilities and a lot of dealers in the affected area, we feel a sense of responsibility to lend a hand."
Beyond donations, Toyota workers are directly involved to provide assistance and do a lot of activities to support those in need. "We really appreciate what they do," said Shigeki.
In addition, from 1 November, Toyota Financial Services and Lexus Financial Services will launch a "Customer Outreach". The program is helping the victims of typhoon disaster to set back the car lease payment schedule. So hopefully they can concentrate for immediate basic needs and bounce back. This program is valid in 13 states were affected, including the Distric of Columbia
Toyota continues to calculate the damage caused by the storm in the East Coast and have not received reports of any family of employees, dealers and their relatives were injured.
Sandy hurricane is a tropical hurricane that devastated most of the Caribbean, Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada by the end of October. Of the 18 storms and 10 hurricanes this year, Sandy is the greatest. Diameter whirlwind reach 1800km!
The effect is remarkable, the wind blows up to 175km / h swept everything passed. Caused landslides in Jamaica, flooding in Haiti that killed 56 people, damaged hundreds of thousands of homes, food shortages, fires and other damage is unimaginable. Even in New York subway network that has been anticipated, still most severely damaged in the last 108 years.
So far the death toll reached 185 people, 22 are still missing and material losses reach 4 billion.
