Many on the crew went to Ken's house yesterday. This house had nearly 8 feet of flood water. Flood water brings lots of things with it, straw and mud are the worst culprit. The first task was to bust down the garage door, no remote control(no electricity)the door was taken out in pieces. Behind the door was an incredible amount of mud, around 18 inches of it. The crew attacked it and the sheetrock in the house, then came in from the jobsite at 3:30. Our crew can work!
Brenda Smith is a great servant. She has taken a shed full of stuff and turned into a workable warehouse full of food and cleaning supplies. Jim, her husband has been working maintenance around the "outpost". Monte and Sharon Corley from Manteca are out mucking on a different crew, Monte was promoted to crew leader today.
Rick Kelley arrived at the airport yesterday after delays in Denver. We retrieved him from the airport on the second attempt late last night. Today he is with Jack Hairston delivering new refrigerators to people in the community.
Yesterday on the airport run I turned off into the streets just east of the Superdome. Litter still remains on the highpoints in the road where people sought refuge from the flood waters. In the 50 block area that I drove around it was very eerie. It was a complete ghost town. We only saw one family looking at their home. One family in an area with thousands of homes. Cars scattered like Monoply pieces all over the place. At one convience store a person was obtaining supplies! The other spooky part, all the homes have search marks. A circle with an x inside it. The information in the circle tells of casualties, date and what group did the search. The height of the mark on the house shows the level of the water when the rescuers were there.
More random thoughts to come later. . . Keep us in your prayers.
Buddy
I am counting down the days till I get home.
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