day 4
Slept so hard last night and woke up after some crazy dreams.
Right now we're at camp chilling out and recovering from our heaviest work day yet.
Anthony is keeping a journal complete with names and addresses of the people we helped. This is such a nice town, and the people are so great. I didn't touch this thing all day, so I'll update as we recap the day.
After breakfast we met a lady that said she needed a lot of help, but her house was mostly in tact, although there was a lot of sand in the back yard- we estimated 4 feet, judging by the basketball hoop, which was at head level.
Afterward, we went to the first name on the list, and helped chop up a tree in the back yard, and then moved out a refrigerator/freezer that was full of seafood that had not been refridgerated for three weeks- we tied it shut to keep it from opening up, but it was leaking and, well, disgusting. Then Oscar used his tractor to shove some cars around to get them out of the way- there are so many abandoned cars, and cars that just floated into yards.
The next job was two trees on top of a house. Oscar was able to tug the first one off with the tractor, and for the second one, Anthony got to use the tractor to lift Scott and Oscar onto the roof with chainsaws. For a while, the other four of us were useless, so we helped tote trees and scrap metal out of the driveway across the street.
In the middle of the second tree we took a break for lunch, but got here after they stopped serving lunch, so we had MREs.
We went back and pulled all the logs and branches out while Scott and Oscar finished cutting up the tree. Anthony said he thought we were more productive yesterday because that house took up so much of the day, but the way I see it there is so much to do that the quality of the work matters more than quantity, and that it's better to do as much as we can per person than to just move some of the stuff for more people. IMHO.
One break the people of Bay St Louis is that FEMA finally came through and they're getting some relief money. Another break is that it still hasn't rained. A DuPont plant nearby washed chemicals all over this area in the storm, so any mid here is considered toxic- we are advised not to touch any of it.
Oh, the Blackberry is finally losing power; we're lucky it has healf out this long. I'll finish this off after we get home, and I'll borrow anthony's journal and post it here, too.
Good night.
Right now we're at camp chilling out and recovering from our heaviest work day yet.
Anthony is keeping a journal complete with names and addresses of the people we helped. This is such a nice town, and the people are so great. I didn't touch this thing all day, so I'll update as we recap the day.
After breakfast we met a lady that said she needed a lot of help, but her house was mostly in tact, although there was a lot of sand in the back yard- we estimated 4 feet, judging by the basketball hoop, which was at head level.
Afterward, we went to the first name on the list, and helped chop up a tree in the back yard, and then moved out a refrigerator/freezer that was full of seafood that had not been refridgerated for three weeks- we tied it shut to keep it from opening up, but it was leaking and, well, disgusting. Then Oscar used his tractor to shove some cars around to get them out of the way- there are so many abandoned cars, and cars that just floated into yards.
The next job was two trees on top of a house. Oscar was able to tug the first one off with the tractor, and for the second one, Anthony got to use the tractor to lift Scott and Oscar onto the roof with chainsaws. For a while, the other four of us were useless, so we helped tote trees and scrap metal out of the driveway across the street.
In the middle of the second tree we took a break for lunch, but got here after they stopped serving lunch, so we had MREs.
We went back and pulled all the logs and branches out while Scott and Oscar finished cutting up the tree. Anthony said he thought we were more productive yesterday because that house took up so much of the day, but the way I see it there is so much to do that the quality of the work matters more than quantity, and that it's better to do as much as we can per person than to just move some of the stuff for more people. IMHO.
One break the people of Bay St Louis is that FEMA finally came through and they're getting some relief money. Another break is that it still hasn't rained. A DuPont plant nearby washed chemicals all over this area in the storm, so any mid here is considered toxic- we are advised not to touch any of it.
Oh, the Blackberry is finally losing power; we're lucky it has healf out this long. I'll finish this off after we get home, and I'll borrow anthony's journal and post it here, too.
Good night.
posted by Court at 10:45 PM
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