Katrina Part III

February 6th, 2006 at 08:35am Brian

Our first assignment was to visit St. Johns Baptist church which was the first place the group started working with. Even knowing the storm tore the roof off completly this church was still handing out supplies to people in need. Talk about an act of kindness.

This picture is what the church looked like without a roof. The small white building in front still had its roof and was housing the supplies.

Here is what the church looked like from the inside.

We wanted to get the fallen debris off the good roof and put some tarps up to protect from the water leaks. I was amazed to watch the group walk up and within 5 minutes was up on the roof working away. We cut wood from the roof and built a make shift ladder to get on top. Of course here is where I made my first polish mistake. As I was gather good 2 x 4 to make the ladder I stepped on a big nail. Right then I felt it go into my boot and foot. I didn’t want to be the one that stopped the group, nor be a hazzard to the group, so I kept on working and thought I would look at it later.

We had the roof completed in about 1 hour and were off to do some work in the small town. The one thing that I didn’t ever think of until now was these people we were helping didn’t have one once of insurance. If it wasn’t for church groups and small volunteer groups these people would have to take care of themselves. As you will read in my posts this was the case for most of the people in this area. We saw house after house that not one single thing had been done to fix the problems. In most of these houses as well the people continued to live, because they simply have no were to go.

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