Day 2 - December 14, 2005

It was an early wake-up call at 6:45 am (4:45 west coast time :¬) but I was very excited that today we were going to work on a house. Not knowing what to expect at all, except seeing some destruction on the drive over, I was in disarray driving through the neighborhoods. The destruction was unreal along with large mounds of everyone’s furniture and clothing littering the streets to be thrown away. Today we worked on a local pastors house to try and clear out his first floor so that he and his family could possibly move back into the second floor. It was very difficult knowing that we were tearing apart a family’s home and that so many other people were in the same situation. Our team accomplished a lot, taking all of the dry wall out of the first floor and clearing out all of the moldy furnisher. The most shocking part of today came right after we finished working on the house and went to the neighborhood where the levy broke. The area looked as bad as you could possibly imagine. You wouldn’t have been able to tell if a bomb had gone off or not. The housed closest to the levy were completely flattened. Cars were flipped upside and relocated on top houses or in large trees. Even a barge had been brought onto the land. I still haven’t had much time to really think about what I saw today but the destruction was incredible. So many people have been affected by this hurricane and I hope that our group being down here will make a difference. In him,

~Kyle