"Before"
"After"
This home belongs to the mother of one of our friends. She is widowed and yesterday, for the first time since she evacuated, she was able to go home. What she found was a home destroyed. It had been submerged under 6 FEET of water. Today and tonight, our family helped "gut" and clean. It was heart-breaking for me to look around and see the devastation of the area we worked in... everything covered in mud (I can still smell the mud); furniture swollen and bulging so much so that they had to be ripped apart in order to get into the drawers; photos and files drenched in muddy water... almost everything thrown away.
Despite the devastation, the silver lining of sorts has been to watch a community come together. The amount of volunteers who are willing to do ANYthing and EVERYthing is mind boggling. Every flooded home is covered with a huge work crew of family, friends and strangers... others walk the streets offering sandwiches, water and fruit. Childcare provided. Clothing provided. Shelter provided. Meals provided. To witness this aspect is simply heartwarming.
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